"All-in-one" Brand of remotes may fill your need. Check their site for cross
references.
"Not me" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:23:09 -0500, default
wrote:

My wife has an old ~86 vintage television/monitor Works great but the
remote is dead. It is getting impossible to find a universal remote
that will work with the thing.

Are you sure it's the remote that's dead? If none of the universals
are working, perhaps there's a fault with the IR sensor itself?

FWIW, we just got an older NEC TV working with a dishnetwork 'blue
button' remote that came with a 301 sat receiver.
If you know anyone with Dishnetwork, perhaps you could borrow their
remote and try it out. Remotes are available on Fleabay.
Here's a link to the manual...
http://www.dishnetwork.com/downloads...ton_Remote.pdf

BTW, the codes are 505, 506, 507, 517, 523, 573, 627, 712.

Good luck.