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December_1998
RE: New Vector Games


From: Jeff Anderson ( )
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 19:32:42 CST


On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Ozdemir, Steve wrote:

> G'day Jeff and folks,
>
> Now this I like....Jeff has vision!!! But I'd be a little wary of putting
> four vector monitors in any games. I'm sure the MTBF might be measured in
> weeks. And as you've said there's always the "wall of flame" risks...I'd
> hate to loose three good monitors to that oddball flakey monitor that
> decides to light up.

well naturaly there will be an automatic halon fire extinguishing system..

There are some planetarium shows that use B/W vector projectors..
What about modifying a 3-gun CRT projector? You can get older CRT projectors
pretty cheap.. you'd have to wind some new yokes for them (yuck), but that
would probably be the hard part..

..yet another project I am not technically proficient enough to tackle,
I'll shut up now :>

Jeff


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