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From: preese@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Phil Reese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Color Monitor
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:26:48 EDT
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In article <20321@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) writes:
>In <11546@decwrl.DEC.COM>, harrow@exodus.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) said:  
>>Well, my Apple color monitor just arrived (who says Christmas is in December?).
>>...
>>However, 2 strange things:
>>...
>>o There is that rumored horizontal line about 2/3 down the screen.
>>
>>Can anyone provide info on whether these are "normal" events, or sample
>>defects?  Especially the line seems just too obvious a defect in the
>>otherwise astounding clarity of the screen...
>
>
>Hmmm... I'm having the same problem with my *non-apple* Sony monitor (the

At the BMUG meeting last night an answer to this question was suggested.
This answer supposedly came from a SuperMac Tech person.

It seems that in the larger Sony trinitron monitor, both Apple's and
SuperMac's monster, there are support wires inside the CRT to help keep
the inside in and the outside out.  It is a shadow of one of these wires 
that you are seeing in your screens.  Take it or leave it as an
explanation.

Phil Reese
SESAME Group
School of Ed, UC Berkeley
preese@garnet.berkeley.edu
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