GADFRAN
Experienced Member
As far as I am aware, a “glare screen” is one that reflects what is in front of it, so you have to adjust the room light so that it does not do this very well – can be very annoying / distracting / etc.
The early CRT’s [cathode ray tubes, old TV’s] – some may be too young to recall them – today LCD’s – big advantages – were notorious for this for many devices, not just computers – it was all we had – you got use to it and expected it.
See my post early last month on a creative / cheap “ pantyhose solution” that was popular in the Kaypro era- with obvious “odd looks” from your female friends when you requested if they had even any that had runs in them !
Kaypro soon adopted the “anti-glare screen” - some sort of frosted coating that broke up the glare – but you still got some “fuzzy” reflections, but a lot better ! Then many other computers got them – e.g. our early 1990’s Gateways.
They were not perfect, so “anti-glare” aftermarket devices to put over the CRT became popular. In some offices, you just could not get away from the glare.
Elston CRT’s from Geneva, NY was a big source. Never had to replace one in over 20 years of hard use. Same with power supplies, after touching up some of the solder joints.
2008 bought out by Display Technologies Inc. of College Park, NY [not MD].
Still available – do a Google search - $400 new, $400 repair – duh ! guess new is the choice. But new have metal shielding partial case – nice compact unit – see website picture, which may or may not work for Kaypros.
Apparently 9” CRT’s were very popular then for some reason – heard it was for surveillance cameras and various electronic instruments - so Osborne and Kaypro used them a lot.
Kaypro made a lot of well built rugged electronic instruments with international and even military sales – so stringent military specs had to be met – greatly over engineered in today’s jargon probably.
You “ neat niks “ are incredible – I envy you ! My computer room looks like you tipped it upside down and then righted it again – mess / chaos / etc. but comfy – “ improving all the time “ as Benny Hill would say !
Just too busy with one project after another – lax in just putting stuff away – including tools / parts / etc.
All part of my specific detailed inventory of our six [6] Kaypros for the new Kaypro Registry that has been proposed.
Wow ! So many differences I never caught ! Check yours out also. Reason – chaos at Kaypro – Osborne “hypergrowth,” etc.
More on all this later – just started my second Kaypro book – “Dissecting ………” because of all of this. Fascinating !
Enjoy !
Frank
The early CRT’s [cathode ray tubes, old TV’s] – some may be too young to recall them – today LCD’s – big advantages – were notorious for this for many devices, not just computers – it was all we had – you got use to it and expected it.
See my post early last month on a creative / cheap “ pantyhose solution” that was popular in the Kaypro era- with obvious “odd looks” from your female friends when you requested if they had even any that had runs in them !
Kaypro soon adopted the “anti-glare screen” - some sort of frosted coating that broke up the glare – but you still got some “fuzzy” reflections, but a lot better ! Then many other computers got them – e.g. our early 1990’s Gateways.
They were not perfect, so “anti-glare” aftermarket devices to put over the CRT became popular. In some offices, you just could not get away from the glare.
Elston CRT’s from Geneva, NY was a big source. Never had to replace one in over 20 years of hard use. Same with power supplies, after touching up some of the solder joints.
2008 bought out by Display Technologies Inc. of College Park, NY [not MD].
Still available – do a Google search - $400 new, $400 repair – duh ! guess new is the choice. But new have metal shielding partial case – nice compact unit – see website picture, which may or may not work for Kaypros.
Apparently 9” CRT’s were very popular then for some reason – heard it was for surveillance cameras and various electronic instruments - so Osborne and Kaypro used them a lot.
Kaypro made a lot of well built rugged electronic instruments with international and even military sales – so stringent military specs had to be met – greatly over engineered in today’s jargon probably.
You “ neat niks “ are incredible – I envy you ! My computer room looks like you tipped it upside down and then righted it again – mess / chaos / etc. but comfy – “ improving all the time “ as Benny Hill would say !
Just too busy with one project after another – lax in just putting stuff away – including tools / parts / etc.
All part of my specific detailed inventory of our six [6] Kaypros for the new Kaypro Registry that has been proposed.
Wow ! So many differences I never caught ! Check yours out also. Reason – chaos at Kaypro – Osborne “hypergrowth,” etc.
More on all this later – just started my second Kaypro book – “Dissecting ………” because of all of this. Fascinating !
Enjoy !
Frank
