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Re: 19" monitors (Was Re: AKF85 Monitor - query for existing users)

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From: Malcolm Knight
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 00:00
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In article <4855BE380D%pat@nanobyte.demon.com.uk>, Patrick Herborn
<URL:mailto:pat@nanobyte.demon.com.uk> wrote:
> In message <4855a2d13emh120608@staffs.ac.uk>
>           Ian Molton <mh120608@cr10m.staffs.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > > Isn't the only difference that it uses 3 guns ?
> > > As if that wasn't significant enough! :-)
> > 
> > Err. Actually, I have no idea why that should improve matters, other than
> > the fact the single gun would need to alter it's intensity 3 times
> > quicker...
> 
> If you have only one gun, your convergence problems suddendly become somewhar
> easier to overcome. 
> 
> > Anyone who knows want to say what the /real/ advantage it?
> 
> I don't know for certain, but suspect that it's convergence related....

When I got my first Trintron tubed device in 1971 and the technology was
still new, it came with a great deal of Sony blurb extolling the virtues
of the simplified convergence and the bigger (brighter) holes in the mask. I
guess Pat is not far wrong again. :-)

-- 
Malcolm
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From: Malcolm Knight <malcolm@digidark.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 19" monitors (Was Re: AKF85 Monitor - query for existing users)
Date: 1998/06/14
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