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From: brian@hpfclm.HP.COM (Brian Rauchfuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II vedio problem
Message-ID: <560007@hpfclm.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 88 18:34:48 GMT
References: <1359@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>/ hpfclm:comp.sys.mac / hsing@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Hsing-Chung Lee) / 12:12 pm  Dec 19, 1988 /
>I just got my Mac II with APPLE vedio card and color monitor and I noticed 
>there is a thin black line on the button half of the screen.
>I went to local dealer and they said it is normal and sure enough, I saw
>the save line on their Mac II. 
>Should APPLE let this happen, or is there other reason for this?
>----------

Let me guess, it is a *very* thin black line, thinner than a pixel?  I haven't
actually looked closely at the Mac II color monitor, but it is a common side
effect of the contruction of the shadow mask in monitors.  It is very difficult
to build a large, color monitor without one or two of the lines, so Apple 
probably couldn't find a good, reasonably priced monitor without one.

Brian Smokefoot