On 13/01/2017 20:51, "Tony Duell" <ard.p850...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just looked at the pics of someone servicing one, I'll go looking for the >> manual :) > > It's actually not too bad to work on. The 2 main PCBs (deflection one side, > video processing on the other) are on fold-out frames. And in fact the whole > thing comes apart in a few minutes. So I see, it reminded me a bit of the Acorn Cambridge Workstation in that respect. > If you can't find the service manual, I have the one I downloaded... Hopefully I won't need it for a long while but you never know! >> The monitor is a Hitachi chassis I think, dark-ish picture of my machine is >> here: http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/einstein.jpg > > That would surprise me, given that Tatung made TV sets (which were often > badged 'Decca' in the UK). Tandy sold a set based on the Tatung 160 chassis > as well. Yes, you're probably right. I was all over the unofficial tatungeinstein.co.uk last year when I was readying my machine for exhibition since I could only find one games disk for it. Naturally I found them all a few weeks ago. Said website is run by the nephew of a Tatung worker in Telford and I'm sure he said who made the monitor but I can't find it now. > Given that, I would have thought they would have used their own chassis > in this monitor. > >> >> And why oh why did I look on ebay for Einstein stuff....grr.... :) > > Why? What happened? I was reminded that the Einstein 256 existed and there's still a couple of places selling unused ones - unused because there wasn't a market for them AND the monitor powered the machine a la Amstrad. Not that I've got a spare £250 of course, but... -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
