Trammell Hudson has written a blog post about his project to retro fit a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" from eBay with a BeagleBone Black running a modern operating system. He figues their retro-future design was too neat to pass up and that the stylish housing combined with an aperture-less amber CRT looks like something slipped from the Fallout or BladeRunner universe into our own. So he and some others at NYC Resistor bought a few and are repurposing them. A lot of soldering and cable smithing is involved.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 08 2018, @03:55PM (2 children)
So long as the CRT doesn't lose its vacuum or filament then it should last quite a long time.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Wednesday August 08 2018, @05:06PM (1 child)
I remember CRTs from that era had nasty problems with burn in. That particular CRT didn't seem to show it though.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:19PM
I wonder if it has to do with the type of phosphor and beam current required for that particular brightness.