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From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sony CPD-1304 MultiScan HG Monitor (Mystery line solved)
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.144725.8844@bpdsun1.uucp>
Date: 24 Jan 91 14:47:25 GMT
References: <14271@milton.u.washington.edu> <314@stiatl.UUCP> <5071@amc-gw.amc.com>
Reply-To: rmf@bpdsun1.UUCP (Rob Finley)
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In article <5071@amc-gw.amc.com> jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall) writes:
>In article <314@stiatl.UUCP> tok@stiatl.UUCP (Terry Kane) writes:
>>And I am just pleased as punch with mine. [Seiko CM1450]  
>>(Except for the heretofore
>>unknown-to-me congenital problem with Trinitron tubes;  there is a shadow
>>on the screen from a wire that applies tension to the mask.  It is about
>>a pixel high, from side to side, descending slightly from left to right,
>>starting about 1/3 from the bottom of the screen.  Boo hiss(sssss).)
>
>So THAT'S what's going on. I have a Seiko CM1430 and I first noticed this
>line about ten months after I bought it... I was afraid the monitor was
>going bad. If you don't know it's there, it can be very difficult to
>notice.

That line is also on both of our MacII Apple Monitors which use Trinitrons. 

(We thought it was a manufacturing problem...)