What is burned into this monitor?
Posted by Lectraplayer@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 11 comments
I picked this monitor up a couple years ago though I didn't realize it had this significant of burn in at the time. Although it still does monitor things, it has obviously been left to run with the brightness and contrast maxed out. With it saying RF Off, I almost believe it was used at some sort of radio station on the transmitter. Could have been some sort of scientific equipment with some of the other stuff I'm seeing. Anyway, any ideas what this monitor may have been connected to and used for in its former life?
motionofwar@reddit
Was definitely used in a radio station. My guess is a numbers station on an transmission loop, with a partial encrypted message mentioning of "swinging one's hips" and "side to side".
ConstructionSafe2814@reddit
Perhaps try to get a "blank screen" image of it and feed it to AI?
Lectraplayer@reddit (OP)
What clanker would you suggest? I haven't spent the tokens on any of them to really get the feel for using any of them.
Suspicious-Diver-630@reddit
Something to do with optics. Maybe for spectrum analysis.
Legal-Swordfish-1893@reddit
I’d venture a guess this was medical. Maybe an old X-Ray machine or something?
Lectraplayer@reddit (OP)
Possible. "Step" likely could also be an adjustment, like finely stepping the frequency or drive power to get it dialed in. Axis Wavelength makes me believe it was probably something scientific or medical, possibly part of a spectrometer akin to what Usagi's been messing with. I could easy be way off toward Aunt Nancy's though.
RetroNIX8@reddit
Looks like the previous owner really liked playing Zelda II!
Lectraplayer@reddit (OP)
Good game, but that's not what the previous owner was using it for.
Educational_Bee_6245@reddit
That Zelda is OPs test image not the burn in, right?
xaranetic@reddit
I would guess it's the control software for some form of spectrometer, but I can't help beyond that.
Educational_Bee_6245@reddit
Looks like Zelda II: The Adventure of Link