Every screen you grew up with was a particle accelerator pointed at your face. The OMNIVOX 2000 is an early-80s living room rebuilt with its chassis exposed: the CRT and its deflection yoke, the tuner, the speaker — and a ZENTRO VX-8 cartridge console plugged into the antenna terminals, because that is how game consoles reached the screen back then.
Channel-hop and the static between stations is generated, not recorded. Fire up the console and the tube draws its raster the way real CRTs did — scanlines, phosphor glow, and the geometry of an electron beam swept sixty times a second. Tap parts of the chassis to learn what each stage does.
It pairs naturally with the CRT oscilloscope exhibit: the same tube physics, pointed at entertainment instead of measurement.
Specifications
- Scene
- Exposed-chassis CRT TV + ZENTRO VX-8 console
- Display
- Simulated raster: scanlines, phosphor, static
- Signal path
- Console RF → tuner → tube, as in 1982
- Interactive
- Channel dial, console power, part inspection
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