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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: line on colour monitor
Message-ID: <6332@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 88 06:17:19 GMT
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <4559@sphinx.uchicago.edu> pgil@sphinx.uchicago.edu writes:
>We just took delivery of a 4 Meg Mac II with colour monitor.
>The monitor is the Apple/Sony 13in Trinitron standard model.
>It is showing a thin grey horizontal line about 3/4 down the screen.
>Our Sales people said we would have to live with it, Apple won't
>take it back.

The sales people are right; you have to live with it.  The line is, more or
less, a shadow cast by a very, very thin wire running behind the screen.
Basically, there's no way to get the resolution of the Trinitron in colo(u)r
without that stabilizing wire in there.  Exactly what it's for I couldn't
tell you, but I do know it's visible, to a lesser or greater extent in some
cases, in many other very-high-resolution RGB monitors.  And, in case you
were wondering, yes, every Apple high resolution RGB monitor has that line.

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