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I was under the impression that you could purchase cheap newly manufactured CRTs on alibaba. I only know this because someone published an unrelated project that repurposed the electron gun and associated internals.
> I was under the impression that you could purchase cheap newly manufactured CRTs on alibaba. Good luck selling that to the DOD.
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There's also like one company still manufacturing CRTs, and their market is exclusively military and heavy-industrial, replacements for old fighter-jet HUDs and the like: https://www.thomaselectronics.com/avionics/head-up-display/ I'm sure there's at least one wealthy Smash Bros. enthusiast willing to pay their asking price and hook up one of their HUDs to a Gamecube to play Melee though.
I was under the impression that you could purchase cheap newly manufactured CRTs on alibaba. I only know this because someone published an unrelated project that repurposed the electron gun and associated internals.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also like one company still manufacturing CRTs, and their market is exclusively military and heavy-industrial, replacements for old fighter-jet HUDs and the like: https://www.thomaselectronics.com/avionics/head-up-display/ I'm sure there's at least one wealthy Smash Bros. enthusiast willing to pay their asking price and hook up one of their HUDs to a Gamecube to play Melee though.
I was under the impression that you could purchase cheap newly manufactured CRTs on alibaba. I only know this because someone published an unrelated project that repurposed the electron gun and associated internals.
I think Thomas Electronics may be it in terms of new manufacture.
This makes me think of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach. I think they’re Tower Semiconductor now, but I believe they’re still there, a small fab in SoCal that I assume is making obscure, important stuff.
I wrote both test bench and aircraft code to replace an F/A-18 (C/D) chip in the RPYC (Roll Pitch Yaw Computer) due to the original being NLA. If I recall correctly (this was a couple decades ago now) the new chip was NEARLY a drop in but had a slightly different rise/fall curve and a couple of ns faster response. It was the closest I could find but required software updates to both the aircraft and the test bench to not be an issue.
So yeah, this has been an issue for decades. I'm personally glad to see a company addressing that market.