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From: Randy.Shaw@p1.f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Randy Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Fine Lines On Color Monitors
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Date: 28 Jan 91 14:57:00 GMT
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> From: costin@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (Dan Costin)
> Date: 22 Jan 91 22:26:44 GMT
> Organization: University of California, San Diego
> Message-ID: <260@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>
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> 
> I have a brand new 13" RGB monitor from Apple, and there's a fine line
> on it about a third of the way up from the bottom.  My friendly Apple
> dealer tells me that this is a ground line, to keep my colors true,
> and that all color monitors have this.

All of the Trinitron monitors for the Mac have this line. There is no way to 
"get rid of it", except to switch to another monitor. However, you may be 
disapointed in the quality of the picture of non-Trinitron monitors.


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