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- From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Pixel Burnout
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 04:00:47 GMT
- Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
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- In article <1993Jan1.171320.8871@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
- writes:
- >
- > At least one of the pixels on my monitor has "died." It is a clear
- black.
- > Disconcertingly, it is only slightly smaller than a period ('.') on the
- > screen. Is this normal? Acceptable?
- >
- > /ivo welch
- > ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
- Mono or color? Mono screens don't have `pixels' as such, where triad masked
- color ones do. If a particle of trash (present in all vacuum tubes) falls and
- lodges in a hole in the mask, you can lose a triad of three color dots, and
- hence see a black dot on the screen.
-
- A word of advise: Never transport any CRT face down, and especially not a
- color one.
-
- Jim
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