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Not Always Impossible | Repairing an old Orange Gas-Plasma Display

Alnwlsn 1,199 7 months ago
Video Not Working? Fix It Now

In which I swap out driver ICs to get a Compaq Portable 386 gas plasma display working again. I'm pretty sure the Compaq Portable III uses the same screen. Probably a lot of portables that use a 640x400 display use one or something very similar. These screens are Matsushita (aka Panasonic) part number MD400F640PD5 Parts I scavenged from the parts screen are: SN751518 - PNP Open Collector outputs, used for Column driver SN751506 - Open Drain JFET outputs, used for Row driver Some more Compaq Portable 386 details: https://alnwlsn.com/z/compaq386/index.html

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