CRT decay (OT)

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Mon Nov 2 20:51:37 1998

> While we're talking about CRTs, I want to ask if anyone has heard of
> any problems with Digital VGA monitors, about 4 years old. We
> installed a lab full of them, and when I turned them on, two lost the
> magic white smoke, and more have various other problems.

My experience with DEC monitors is somewhat earlier on vaxstations, and THEY
had a reputation for smoking. I smoked one. It went on working but quietly
was venting smoke almost directly into an air handler intake duct so we thought
we had a fire on another floor. It took me a while before I noticed the smoke
rising out of my monitor.

-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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