Re: Even dumb tubes expire

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm. It took a lightning strike to do yours in? Our old 3180 and 3487 
simply died of old age. (I think the flyback on the 3180 shorted out. As 
I recall, whatever it was, the fuse on that one didn't just blow; it 
exploded.)

But you're right about real terminals being cheap. Over the years, we've 
managed to pick up a nice 3489, and an amber 3477, and a twinax 
Yestation (which we chose specifically because we wanted to feed it 
through a KVM switch).

Just out of morbid curiosity, are there any LCD monitors these days that 
actually look GOOD with a 3489? The one or two we tried a few years ago, 
if they worked at all, looked like scat.