Some Sony Trinitrons you may not have seen before

[dr.ido]

I was sorting through my shed today and uncovered these while trying to decide what stays and what goes.



A KTX-1420UB Viewdata terminal. These were used to access online banking and data services over 1200bps dial up. It also has NTSC/PAL composite and RGB video inputs and can control a connected laserdisc player. The terminal display can be overlayed over video. When the Viatel services stopped these became the cheapest way to get a nice monitor with a super fine pitch CRT. If I had a land line I'd hook it up and see if the Viatel dial in was still active (for reasons unknown it stayed up serving test/demo pages long after the service died).

There was also a 9" version with a smaller calculator style keyboard, but it doesn't have any video inputs.



A EVM-1410PR Video8 combo unit. The Video8 deck was already gone by the time I got it. I picked it up intending to mount a games system in it, but found that some of the monitor circuitry was on the Video8 PCB and it won't power up without it.



A PVM-1371QM monitor. Full PAL/NTSC/SECAM multisystem with loads of inputs. I can never find any PVM monitor that doesn't have time code screen burn. Otherwise it still has a great picture. I was eyeing a stack of Apple Mac monitors hoping one may be a suitable CRT donor, but the 12" model was the only one of that series not to use a Trinitron CRT.