Caveat Emptor: After Dark

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From: Walt Davis
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:07

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After a long wait we were finally bequeathed a Radius Pivot gray-scale
monitor for our poor MAC nSE/30 from our secretary who upgraded to a full
two-page display.  The installation was trivial, however after power-up
we noticed some strange artifacts at the bottom of the monitor
(long-ways).  It wasn't until we blackened the entire screen that the
mystery was solved.  It turns out that the famous After-Dark fish
"screen-saver" had burned the ocean floor into the phosphor of our
monitor.  Granted our secretary probably kept the monitor on for months
with the fish scene "saving" the monitor every night, but when does a
"screen-saver" turn malicious?  Any other persistent ocean floors out
there?

Walt Davis
Alcatel Network Systems
Raleigh, NC
davisw%aurgate@mcnc.org

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From: davisw@aurs01.uucp (Walt Davis)
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Subject: Caveat Emptor: After Dark
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Date: 13 Apr 92 21:07:19 GMT
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