Date   : Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:03:18 +0000 (GMT)
From   : debounce@... (Greg Cook)
Subject: Microvitec CUB 895 monitor?

On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:33:01 +0000, Alex Taylor <astravan@...>
wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've had this monitor in my loft for years now, and I've never
> switched 
> it on until today. I got it from the tip as a job lot with a BBC B,
> twin 
> drive etc. The monitor is still dirty from being left out standing on
> 
> soil in the rain.
> 
> I did notice when I first got it that the tube looked darker than a 
> 'normal' Cub. It's only today that I power it on and connect it to my
> 
> Master 512, that I notice that it's by far and away the best picture 
> I've *ever* seen on a monitor of its type.
> 
> Has anyone else come across a CUB 895 before? I'm just interested 
> because this is the only one I've ever seen, and I wonder how it
> fitted 
> in with the rest of the range and if it cost any more.

Seen one on a Beeb that had been kept in the head office of a
not-so-well known brand, as a character generator and PROM blower (via
a big tin box full of discrete components that were re-seated on every
use as there was a dry joint *somewhere*).  When you brought your
finger close enough some static discharge would crackle - and keep
crackling.

So they were around, and it was definitely a higher-spec model and not
just a second-source tube.  No information about the price, but what do
you think! ;-)

Greg



               
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