Last Tube TVs?

[Sandy G]

Yeah, the feller I went to Knoxville with to get that mighty 386 machine so long ago I THINK still has it.. He's a bit of a "Packrat"...

[dr.ido]

I realise it won't be as simple as plug and play for machines that don't have actual ISA slots, but the bus signals have to be in there somewhere (I wasn't suggesting it would be easy). Most of these machines had space for internal modems or optional hard disks, so there's room inside to squeeze something in.

I know the T1600, possibly T1100 and Compaq Portable 3 had optional external ISA expansion boxes available, so there's a connector there albeit a non-standard one.

This derail is getting quite long now. Could someone move it its own thread in offtopic or something?

[lnx64]

I second the splitting of the thread to keep the tech talk. I would love to talk more without derailing this one.

[Artcurus]

I quite distinctly remember some arcade games in the early 80's that used a revised Magnavox style tube chassis driving a black masked or Wells Gardner color picture tube. No doubt about it, in fact I was around 11 and I told this one guy that was servicing a Centipede game exactly what he had to fix on the chassis. (6JE6 was red plating)

I began looking for those tube driven games because I found it so cool but also odd to say the least.

[Jon A.]

Just how long was my Greenith's 12CB12ZX chassis in production anyway? Speaking of that chassis, a mostly-tube hybrid seems rather unusual to me. Surely it won't beat the porta-potty for production longevity, but I'm curious.