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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sony 1304 Display Problem
Keywords: sony 1304
Message-ID: <965@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 18:45:39 GMT
References: <1057@gistdev.gist.com> <1991Jan19.094210.13259@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Sheckel)
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todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>
>kipp@gistdev.gist.com (Kipp Kreft) writes:
>
>>I have a Sony 1304 (with a Gateway 2000 33MHz system), and I noticed after
>>about a week of using it, that there is a barely noticeable horizontal
>>shadow about 33 to 40% up from the bottom.
>
>All tubes of this type from Sony have that line.  My friend had a
>color Mac screen that uses the same tube as the 1304 and he had
>the same wire.  Nothing to worry about.  Just slightly annoying if
>you are a purist.
>

I believe this is normal for a certain type of tube.  These are called
"flat tension mask" monitors, I think.  The IBM RS/6000 monitors we have
here have two such lines each.
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