{"id":16056,"date":"2017-03-29T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2017-03-29T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:32:53","slug":"a-crappy-tv-or-replacement-parts-for-a-rare-arcade-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/a-crappy-tv-or-replacement-parts-for-a-rare-arcade-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crappy TV or Replacement Parts for a Rare Arcade Monitor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just goes to show you never know what you may find on the side of the road:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_o8sp92UH831ut6ifho1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw a pile of trash on the corner on my way home, so of course I turned my ass around and checked it out. There was a stereo receiver (pass), some DVDs and books (pass), and this sad looking 13&#8243; 1980s color TV half underneath a backpack. Being an unrepentant garbage person, I loaded it right up.<\/p>\n<p>Got it home and cracked open to see what I found. I had a good feeling about this one when I saw the yoke, and got even more excited when I pulled the neckboard and found this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_inline_o8sp2glYuy1qcul6y_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a CR-24 tube neck, which is used by all color vector displays\u2026 This is VERY good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_inline_o8sp3wyVn61qcul6y_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tube is 13VBSP22\u2026 This rings a faint bell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_inline_o8sp4efRd11qcul6y_500.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes! This is an identical replacement for a 13\u2033 Amplifone color vector monitor. These are some of the rarest arcade monitors ever made, because they were specially built for the Atari PAT 9000, which only had a production run of 250-300 \u2014 And I have one! Huge, huge, score, I never thought I\u2019d see one of these. It\u2019s terrific to have a spare tube for this rare monitor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158684550482\/oh-log-n-i-saw-a-pile-of-trash-on-the-corner-on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just goes to show you never know what you may find on the side of the road: &nbsp; I saw a pile of trash on the corner on my way home, so of course I turned my ass around and checked it out. There was a stereo receiver (pass), some DVDs and books (pass), and this sad looking 13&#8243; 1980s color TV half underneath a backpack. Being an unrepentant garbage person, I loaded it right up. Got it home and cracked open to see what I found. I had a good feeling about this one when I saw the yoke, and got even more excited when I pulled the neckboard and found this: That\u2019s a CR-24 tube neck, which is used by all color vector displays\u2026 This is VERY good. Tube is 13VBSP22\u2026 This rings a faint bell. Yes! This is an identical replacement for a 13\u2033 Amplifone color vector monitor. These are some of the rarest arcade monitors ever made, because they were specially built for the Atari PAT 9000, which only had a production run of 250-300 \u2014 And I have one! Huge, huge, score, I never thought I\u2019d see one of these. It\u2019s terrific to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[2541,2542,202,225,2540,2543,2538,2539],"class_list":["post-16056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-retro-games","tag-13vbsp22","tag-amplifone","tag-arcade","tag-atari","tag-monitor","tag-pat-9000","tag-rca","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}