Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #41

Post #41 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 10:35
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/living-in-an-os-9-x-adb-serialmac-world.18509/

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That Blueberry, Tripod Mounted CRT might not be quite ready for the gutting knife yet, I get a full five minutes out of it before I ever see a jitter and then I've only seen one pop/zoom event/thingie after it had been running for over 15 minutes.
Once I get a B&W G-3 (none too soon, due to $ constraints) or its temporary substitute online as a plotter server, I can just set the screen to blank after 3 or 4 minutes, it doesn't take long to get a job rolling, so I don't need the monitor any longer than that.

Whatcha think, gang?

The pop/zooms will only get worse and worse as the flyback degrades. Eventually, the monitor will perform several of these "arcs" per minute. This should be considered a hazardous state and the monitor immediately retired if it gets that bad.