xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/17/90)
In article <267@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes: = In article <7562@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick = palmer) writes: => => Yesterday, I read the message from someone who warned about => ignoring 1084 snapping and popping lest one wait until the high => voltage power supply blew. About 2 messages later my 1084 (which => snapped and popped for about a year) went black. = = Just as another data point in this discussion, I have a 1080 monitor = which has snapped and popped since 1985, despite repeated cleanings = and some applications of corona dope. I really do wish C-A would = officially recognize this problem as a design defect, come up with a = fix, and issue a recall for anyone with the problem to take the = monitor to an authorized repair center and get the silly thing = fixed. In my case, the problem only comes up for a few months per = year, on days when there are noticable static electricity problems = with other machines (when the monitor starts popping I know to = ground myself before inserting a cartridge drive in the Bell Tech = machine or the static discharge will cause the system to freeze up). = = -Fred = -- = # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA = # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf Yep. I've got two Amiga monitors, and they're both doing self destructive internal electric arcing, pretty much independent of the weather. I was less than thrilled to find out that it would cost me $120 per monitor to fix Commodore's error by going to a dealer, or else my option was to start poking around in a high voltage system where I have no business at all, to try to fix it myself. Commodore has been informed on this net about this problem for what, three or four or perhaps even five years now? Showing as much responsibility as the Detroit ironmongers would be a big step forward on Commodore's part. I wonder what that little undesigned "pop" does to the monitor's soft radiation average output, just to stir the pot a bit. -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us (Kent Paul Dolan) xanthian@ads.com - expiring soon; please use Well address for replies. Kent, the (bionic) man from xanth, now available as a build-a-xanthian kit at better toy stores near you. Warning - some parts proven fragile. Just another "overqualified" (read over 40 and previously well paid) unemployed/unemployable computer graphics programming guru. -> METAFONT, TeX, graphics programming done on spec -- (415) 964-4486 <-