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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Three Questions
Message-ID: <91031.133711CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 18:37:11 GMT
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In article <9101191245.aa18238@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>, kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU
(Kenneth Anderson) asks:

>3.  I own a 13' color monitor, and I have noticed a line going horizontally
>    across my screen about four inches up from the bottom of the monitor.
>    This line is only noticable when there is a white background behind it,
>    so it doesn't bother me too much, but what I wanted to know was, whether
>    other 13' color monitor owners have this same line across their screens?
>    Should I take it back and get it replaced?

This faint line is characteristic of Sony's Trinitron monitor technology,
and appears in all Apple Hires 13" RGB monitors (which are, of course,
Sony Trinitrons.)  It's nothing to worry about.

As another respondant mentioned, it's the shadow of a thin wire that's
used (I believe) for focussing of the electron beams or some such.

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