Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!njw From: njw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nick Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Monitors and the environment (sort of) Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 19:16:19 GMT References: <101950167@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 25 In-reply-to: will@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com's message of 13 Nov 90 00:42:02 GMT I asked this question of a HP engineer recently who came in to replaced a fried board in two of our monitors :-) His reply was pretty vague however. The general idea was: You can leave them on all the time, and it's not a bad idea. The main problem with that is getting them de-gaussed. They will automatically de-gauss themselves, on power-*UP*. Hence if you leave them on for too long, without a power-cycle, the colours will supposedly go screwy on the display. HoHum. How to completely non-answer a question. :-) Nick -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Nick Williams. njw@doc.ic.ac.uk ... Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2B7. UK njw@athena.mit.edu ... Project Athena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139. USA Any opinions or views you may find hiding in this message are mine, and not policy, intent, ideas, twinklings of eyes, or anything at all related with my current organisation, unless specifically noted as such.