Date   : Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:41:03 +0000
From   : francis@... (Francis Devereux)
Subject: Microvitec CUB 895 monitor?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:44:10AM +0000, Alex Taylor wrote:
> Mike Tomlinson wrote:
>  > In article <457AACFD.2060806@...>, Alex Taylor
>  > <astravan@...> writes
>  >
>  >> 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.
>  >
>  > Microvitec sold the Cub with 3 tubes: "standard" res, "medium" res, and
>  > "high" res.  Tell me what the model number on the rear label is: it'll
>  > be of the form 14x1-MSx.  Is it metal-cased or plastic cased?  If
>  > plastic, is it beige, grey or black?
>  >
> Ah! It's 1441-MS4. What's the correlation between the '895' number on 
> the front and the model number on the back?
> 
> I forgot to say what colour/shape it is too, which was one of the main 
> points of what I was saying :-) It's a beige metal square one, just like 
> 'normal' ones for the Beeb. I've seen Miceovitec plastic-cased CGA 
> monitors with high-res tubes etc (in fact I *think* I have some in my 
> garage), but never in the beige metal form.

My school used to have a few of these (high res Cubs with darker tubes in
boxy metal cases).  I remember drooling over them because they were the only
colour monitors I'd seen that could display MODE 0 readably, so they were
both great for games (unlike green-screen monitors) and great for editing
programs in MODE 0 (unlike standard Cubs).

Francis