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From: tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: 3b1 Terminal & Scrreching Noise
Keywords: Flyback transformer replacement?
Message-ID: <1246@adds.newyork.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 14:52:06 GMT
Organization: Applied Digital Data Systems Hauppauge, NY
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In article <1809@naucse.UUCP> sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
> In article <1223@adds.newyork.NCR.COM> tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz) writes:
>>...
>>On Sunday Morning, about 7:30 am, just after my husband complained
>>that I left the computer on and it was "noisy,"  tfk, my home machine
>>must have taken offense to his remark, because it started to emit
>>a high pitched whine. 
>>...
>
>When I had this, I ended up having to replace the monitor - the sound
>was (he thinks) the flyback transformer dying.  Took a few weeks from
>the first appearance of the screams to the final death, but it was
>an absolute death.  If you started getting the gibberish on the screen,
>you might want to start talking to someone about buying a new monitor
>(fortunately, they are pretty cheap).
>
>-- 
>	Steve Wampler
>	{....!arizona!naucse!sbw}

This may be a naive observation, but here goes:

Is it necessary to dispose of the entire terminal when the flyback 
transformer goes?  Can't this part be replaced?  (If only the terminal 
can be opened up?)

-Tanya

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