Re: WTD :- 25' Amplifone monitor for my Starwars cockpit

My cockpit had a 19" conversion board in it. I still have it around, if anyone
needs one.

The 25" tubes were probably just hard to come by.

You can use a tube from a WG K5501

JB

"Hendrix, Jeff" wrote:

> My star wars cockpit has a 19" amplifone in it. I could never figure out why
> someone would replace the tube if the deflection and HV boards were working.
>
> -jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Swan [mailto:pswan@lsil.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: WTD :- 25' Amplifone monitor for my Starwars
> cockpit
>
> Chris,
>
> Cockpits can take either 25" Amplifone or 19" WG flavours. The cab is
> the same but (having never seen one with a 19" in it) I assume the
> original 25" monitor mounts are extended with spacers to fit a 19" in.
>
> Not sure if they were originally manufactuered with either or Atari did
> a conversion kit later on as the Amplifones broke down. I was under the
> impression it was something Atari official rather than an after-market
> hack but not sure.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
>
> Chris Wopat wrote:
> >
> > Good luck on this! :)
> >
> > On a related note, a guy in my town (Madison, WI) a fellow who collects
> > arcade games opened his own retro-arcade. Anyhow, he has a Star Wars
> > Cockpit, but I *SWEAR* it has a 19" monitor in it. Were there two
> > different cockpit versions? It doesn't seem to me that it would be
> > possible to fit a 25" in this chassis.
> >
> > -Chris

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Received on Thu Aug 1 16:39:52 2002