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In article <1990Oct15.184627.5163@agate.berkeley.edu>, link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:
> The monitor (amber mono) on my Rainbow went dead.
> At first, it started acting up (vertical hold), which a technician
> here was able to temporarily fix by turning a pot (second from front)
> on the inside of the monitor. Eventually, it died completely on a
> later power-up.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how easy this is to fix, and approximately
> the cost?
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get another monitor, and for how much?

Such a thing is probably available - probably used - from various third
party computer mail order dealers (Newman, Midwest, Brookvale, Digital 
Basics, and others specialize in both new and used DEC hardware). The 
used equipment vendors probably don't deal much with Rainbow hardware 
any more, so you may have to call around:

	Newman		1-313-426-3200
	Midwest		1-800-328-7000
	Brookvale	1-516-273-7777
	Digital Basics	1-800-522-1742

Expect to pay up to around $160 for a new monitor or up to around $80
for a used one (expensive for a monochrome monitor but then it's a
specialty item).  As you might expect, most of the new equipment they
sell is VAXes and workstations, and most of their Rainbow hardware is
used.  Every once in a while though they have a few pieces of new
Rainbow equipment that has been sitting in a warehouse somewhere at
some company that never quite got around to using or selling it.

Every once in a while DEC will sell off a bunch of used and new (but
obsolete) equipment, often at pretty good prices, but if you're not 
on their mailing list you won't hear about it.  I haven't noticed any
Rainbow equipment on it for a while (for some years it was a standard
item on such lists) but then I haven't been looking.

You can also take the monitor to DEC for repair or replacement.  If
you take your old monitor in as a trade-in, it would probably cost
around $100 to replace it with a "new" one;  this price is sort of
expensive for what it is, but it's not totally outrageous (unlike
DEC's price for disk drives, which is another story...).  You would
also wind up with a monitor that might have been worked over a bit 
better than a used one you might get from a used equipment vendor.

Good luck.

						Bruce C. Wright