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Argus25 · 19th Apr 2019, 7:46 am

I've always thought it highly likely that the video monitors in those units were made by Conrac, but I cannot quite see the chassis labels well enough in the photos. If they are another brand I would be interested to know who, possibly RCA or Motorola. Conrac dominated the high reso monitor market. They had very well focused high intensity beams and clearly a high video bandwidth to display not only video images but also Telemetry data and most had P4 phosphors from the historic photos I have seen. Also I have thought it likely the CRT in them was probably the 14BAP4, from the look of the rectangular face, but I'm not sure if they were a bigger size. Those monitor chassis would be easy to get working again and probably most of those CRT's are still ok.

19th Apr 2019, 7:46 am	#5
Argus25 No Longer a Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. Posts: 2,679	Re: Restoration of Apollo era consoles I've always thought it highly likely that the video monitors in those units were made by Conrac, but I cannot quite see the chassis labels well enough in the photos. If they are another brand I would be interested to know who, possibly RCA or Motorola. Conrac dominated the high reso monitor market. They had very well focused high intensity beams and clearly a high video bandwidth to display not only video images but also Telemetry data and most had P4 phosphors from the historic photos I have seen. Also I have thought it likely the CRT in them was probably the 14BAP4, from the look of the rectangular face, but I'm not sure if they were a bigger size. Those monitor chassis would be easy to get working again and probably most of those CRT's are still ok.