mountainking
Experienced Member
My favorite group of products is definitely the the RCA Cosmac boards and machines. I'm big fan of early trainers and the like and the Cosmac products are just super dope in every possible way. Unfortunately I have yet to score anything other than the VP series of keyboards, including one of the video terminals but what I do have is among my favorites in my collection.
I scored the pieces pictured within a week of one another.
Along with loving early trainers, I also love vintage security monitors and at the top of my list of monitors is the RCA TC1210, this is the monitor seen the Cosmac VIP ads that are in like every late 70s issue of Byte (mine Byte collection is packed up or I would have included a photo of an actual issue instead of the Google shot). I love the bezel around the screen, it gives it a more stylized look than most of these type of monitors.They are hard to come by and often pricey so when this one popped up ebay for around $50 shipped I grabbed it. I made sure the seller packed it well, which they did, and then USPS lost it for almost week....
....I was totally expecting it to show mangled but it arrived safe and sound. The picture is a bit dim but not bad and I'm hoping some tlc might improve that. It also needs the yoke adjusted but I'm going to wait til I'm settled into my new place to do so. I'll post some screen shots once I'm done with the tweaks. It's pretty awesome that CRTs from the 70s are still around and still in working condition. I also have a iddy biddy 5" RCA monitor from the early 80s that is mint condition and came with all of the og documentation/paperwork, I'll have to post a pic of it at some point.
Strangely enough, the four RCA1800/Cosmac manuals ended up being around $50 shipped as well, a bit more than I wanted to pay but I'm glad I grabbed them.
Hopefully some day I will score one of the pieces of the Cosmac family. Had a chance to snag a Cosmac micromonitor a few years ago for super cheap but I was too broke to pick it up. It still pains me to think about
. Probably my favorite of the Cosmac line.
I scored the pieces pictured within a week of one another.
Along with loving early trainers, I also love vintage security monitors and at the top of my list of monitors is the RCA TC1210, this is the monitor seen the Cosmac VIP ads that are in like every late 70s issue of Byte (mine Byte collection is packed up or I would have included a photo of an actual issue instead of the Google shot). I love the bezel around the screen, it gives it a more stylized look than most of these type of monitors.They are hard to come by and often pricey so when this one popped up ebay for around $50 shipped I grabbed it. I made sure the seller packed it well, which they did, and then USPS lost it for almost week....
....I was totally expecting it to show mangled but it arrived safe and sound. The picture is a bit dim but not bad and I'm hoping some tlc might improve that. It also needs the yoke adjusted but I'm going to wait til I'm settled into my new place to do so. I'll post some screen shots once I'm done with the tweaks. It's pretty awesome that CRTs from the 70s are still around and still in working condition. I also have a iddy biddy 5" RCA monitor from the early 80s that is mint condition and came with all of the og documentation/paperwork, I'll have to post a pic of it at some point.Strangely enough, the four RCA1800/Cosmac manuals ended up being around $50 shipped as well, a bit more than I wanted to pay but I'm glad I grabbed them.
Hopefully some day I will score one of the pieces of the Cosmac family. Had a chance to snag a Cosmac micromonitor a few years ago for super cheap but I was too broke to pick it up. It still pains me to think about
. Probably my favorite of the Cosmac line.
