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From: "Charles Angelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SURVPC] Monitors - compatible



> Interesting, my experiences with CGA monitors has been the reverse - they
die
> shortly after I reconfigure to use them. ;-)
>
> In the tech echo on FIDO the people there have repeated several times that
> capacitors will dry up if the monitor is stored and not in use.  I suspect
this
> has been the case for my CGA monitors.

True for most older equipment - I have a couple of dead PETs suffering from
this problem - one day "soon" I'll fix 'em.

Several old Commodore 108x monitors here - one of 'em has been in daily use
since around '87 as a monitor attached to a VCR in my bedroom - apart from
the odd dry solder every now & again (par for the course with these), never
had a problem. Others are used for a variety of other tasks, including a
1084S (stereo) that's attached to the TV tuner card on this 'puter.

They also turn up quite frequently as monitors attached to security cameras
in many shops & banks :-) They seem to go forever :-) Most of 'em are
Philips jobs re-branded.

cheers,

Lance

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