Ok it's time for a thread about the sencore AT985 atsc RF monitor, tbh first time I ever heard about atsc so no idea what format is that, but hey look! a floppy drive.
Of course it's a computer and it's pretty obvious that it's a single board computer in the middle of a backplane, nice! Hope it's a 486 or something like that.
I'm in, it really looks like a case for a device with a crt monitor cool, there are several interesting things here, like the NT license, a full desktop HDD and what it looks like modern ram and a socket 7 Cpu?
Also beefy power supplies, I wonder if the issue is related to one of those because I can't hear the Hi guess I need to get working on making an image of the HDD asap
The RF card, it has a Phillips chip like all the other tv cards from that era, the metal box is very very long though, very interesting I'll probably remove that cover later
The next card is connected to the function buttons on the front and the backlight, it also has some outputs for an alarm I think, it also feeds the screen fan
The last card is the video card itself, the big cable on the top goes directly to the LCD screen, it has a normal vga output too that works at the same time, the big connector I guess it's also for the display RGB signals but external, idk.
im probably going to get all the interesting parts from this (all the electronics) and probably scrapping the case, it's just waay to big and heavy to keep around, completely worth the 5 bucks though, very fun
but i want to make a video first just to show it a little more
i think the board on the second photo is controlled by the isa card connected to it, maybe some sort of soft power off, because if i switch the button on the front it shut it down after a minute or so, probably also sends a command to windows or something
@nepi iirc the government tested several standards before deciding on the current one, so probably this thing was a left over from that era, the file names and date kinda fit that idea
the constellation at least, uh, looks like all the right parts are there - it should ideally be concentrated on the 8 vertical lines. When the dots start falling more left and right of them that usually implies weak signal / terrain impacts on the received signal, multipath, or distortion at the transmitter.
@vxo i think they were testing in different parts of the city because of the file names, and it kinda makes sense with the dates, it was when they were deciding on a standard here
@carlos Chile, I think they sold them here at some point, it has all the government certification stickers on the back, but I haven't seen the brand before
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