monitor question (problem diagnosis)

[Chuck Guzis]

n 11/8/2005 at 2:20 PM charlesmorris at direcway.com wrote:

>Semi-OT: I have 13 arcade games in my basement, most non-working when I
>got them. The video monitors in some of them are mounted "sideways" (long
>axis of the tube is vertical). These old units (early 1980's) all have the
>HV generated from the horizontal deflection, naturally. So a thin white
>line running vertically is actually a loss of *vertical* deflection. 
>Just to further confuse things :)
>-Charles

Seems to me back then there was at least one vendor of a vector-scanned (as
opposed to rasterized) game.  Or at least the product announcement was
made--I don't think I ever saw one up close.

Cheers,
Chuck