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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
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- Subject: Re: Turning Indigo monitor off when unused
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204218.18404@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:42:17 GMT
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- In article <DAVIS.92Nov20133925@nod.bms.com>, davis@nod.bms.com (Malcolm Davis) writes:
- -
- - In defence of Dale Atems original question about powering off the
- - monitor and to counter Jim McNicholas and Todd Scalzott's cute
- - comebacks, I would point out that when we first got our Ardent at the
- - University of Houston leaving the monitor turned off would crash the
- - system!
-
- It is also useful to check how the monitor is earthed. I had one on a dodgy
- earthing and when switching it off, the residual static went in desparation
- back to the display board and mauled the clut/dac :-(
-
- Ah, no, it wasn't a Titan or an Iris, but I guess it could happen to any.
-
- Thomas
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