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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Krogenar on Tue, 06 November 2012, 11:06:51
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I'm collecting more and more Model M keyboards and I love the retro vibe I get from them. But my desktop needs the following monitor:
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The company is Predicta (http://Predicta), http://www.predicta.com/index.shtml
... and they bought the patent for the original Predicta television (much like Unicomp -- which bought the right to manufacture Model M equivalents). I contacted the company a few months back, and they're not in production any longer, but I'd still love to get my mitts on one of these things. I'd put the testing image from Fallout 3 on it, and it would be awesome.
Anyone ever find any retro-ish monitor setups?
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Those are awesome looking. To bad they aren't around anymore. I would have bought one.
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Yeah, they're pretty awesome. I think some people have taken the original televisions and modified them for modern use, but I don't have the technical chops to do that myself. The company making the reproductions also made a bunch of other 'models' of the new Predicta. This one looked cool:
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But alas, no longer producing the remakes. Make this same sort of thing as high-def, with curved corners and the rotators on the sides, and it would sell. I imagine they would be fairly high priced seeing as there would not be a huge market for retro enthusiasts.
I found this LG television (CRT sadly) and it's (naturally) only sold in Korea!
http://www.lge.co.kr/cokr/product/catalog/FrontProductDetailCmd.laf?prdid=eprd104151&mnid=prod000200010005&catid=ecat1540&curcatid=ecat1540&detailType=B (http://www.lge.co.kr/cokr/product/catalog/FrontProductDetailCmd.laf?prdid=eprd104151&mnid=prod000200010005&catid=ecat1540&curcatid=ecat1540&detailType=B)
LG Serie 1
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Not as retro-looking as the Predicta but it has a sputnikky kind of charm. Nice aerials!
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It looks like the aparells you saw on the jetsons. Pretty neat stuff.