[comp.sys.dec] Poor display quality on DECstation 3100

ntitley@cocoa.axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley) (08/25/89)

We have been loaned a DECstation 3100 by DEC and are somewhat disturbed by
the quality of the display, in particular, when the machine is anything like
busy ( a `find / ' will do it) we get black intermittant lines jumping about
the screen.

It looks like the screen refresh is not transparent.

Has anyone else noticed this? It looks like it could get very annoying after
a while.

Nigel Titley

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steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) (08/25/89)

   We had the same problem with one (and only one) of the DECstations
we purchased.  DEC replaced the CPU, and the problem hasn't shown up
since.

	-Steve

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