Re: Re: vector: 25" Amplifone tube DAG connector/spring?(story truth?)

From: Aaron Howald <ahowald_at_w-link.net>
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 02:52:24 EDT

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From: "Bret Pehrson" <bret@infowest.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Re: vector: 25" Amplifone tube DAG connector/spring?

> You can spot those HVTs a mile away -- they are very characteristic in
> shape/color, and were only used on Atari vector monitors. Atari bought
> Amplifone, the manufacturer, and those HVTs were specific to the Atari
> manufactured XY monitor.
>
> The primary reason that the red HVTs fail is because an "all-powerful"
> (at least in *his* mind) Atari exec was smoking in the manufacturing
> plant, against the rules and advice of the managers. Anyway, he threw
> his butt in the trash, started a paper fire, which ended up setting off
> the sprinkler system, getting water all over the supplies. The bonehead
> exec then insisted that they continue manufacturing the units, in spite
> of the damage. The theory is that the moisture from the sprinklers
> leads to the decay of the shellac coating on the internal wirings,
> eventually leading to it shorting out. It is not known exactly how many
> HVTs were affected by this exec's brilliance, but it is at least
> hundreds, if not thousands...

Is this story really true? Confirmed true? It sounds like a hellish fairy tale...

Vector Viper

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