Belgian computers?

[Tony Duell]

> I remember NATS at West Drayton in the UK were using Barco displays when I 
> visited them a couple of years ago. The CRT screens must have been something 
> like a 28" diagonal and the resolution was very high, several thousand pixels 
> in each axis. Engineering on them looked to be a very high standard, too.

I can't comment on modern Barco stuff, but I have an old Barco TV monitor 
here (about 27 yeras old). It is quite simply the best engineered monitor 
it's ever been my pleasure to work on or use.

The picture is, of course, second-to-none (given the limitations of a 
TV-rate signal, OK...). The think is built like a tank, with solid metal 
chassis work, plug-in cards, labelled testpoints, a drawer that slides 
out at the fornt containing the converegence PCB and deflection boards 
(where most of the adjustments are), even an extender board stored inside 
the unit. The manual contains full schematics, waveform data, parts 
lists, and so on. 

Truely an excellent piece of engineering.

-tony