I winced upon reading your description of how stupidly it was packed.
That crt is physically unusual (10x10, instead of, say, 8x10), which is why it's unobtainium. Electrically, though, it's plain vanilla. It's a monoaccelerated jug, I'm fairly certain (no need for a PDA -- it's plenty bright because the sweeps are very slow). So you could probably bodge in some random Tek crt and make it work after a fashion, but it would look funny, as you'd be missing some height. If you really must have the original screen dimensions, you're pretty much limited to that original crt. The last time I looked for one, years ago, ebay prices were around $500 or so. I shudder to think what they are now.
Good luck!
--Tom
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On 5/3/2022 23:21, David Aurora wrote:
Following on from my other thread where I was awaiting delivery...
... my 576 arrived today. As soon as I popped the lid on the crate I knew things were bad- there was zero padding between the crate and the top of the unit. The bottom was the same, the seller had literally just done a single wrap of bubble wrap around the sides and shipped it from the US to Australia as if nothing would go wrong.
Obviously, the CRT has been destroyed, this thing must have been slammed up and down a thousand times in the past couple weeks.
I've always heard there's practically no chance of finding replacements, and with my work schedule I have zero time to play around trying to jerry rig an external display. So my question is, are the CRT's really unobtainable, if not, how often and what kind of price range do they seem to pop up in? I can live with one that's a little dim if need be, but if this is going to just sit here forever waiting for a screen then I probably need to crate it back up and get it shipped back to the seller immediately.
Ugh, what a day.
