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Recently I made some statements about color CRTs, and a couple of
people asked for more information. Unfortunately those articles expired
before I could reply to them, so here is some more information.

First, a monitor with a support wire shadow is not a monitor of highest
quality, since it inherently interferes with the information it is
displaying. Note that the wires in the Sony monitors are artifacts of
Trinitron technology, not RGB monitor technology.

My statement about it being possible to build better monitors was based
on direct experience. When I started working at JPL in 1977 we were
using Conracs and occasionally Barcos; they did not have support
wires.  Since neither of those companies were anywhere near newcomers
when I was, they've been in existence about two decades. Thus the
better technology is definitely old hat.

I haven't checked Conrac or Barco prices recently, but I'm sure they're
more than the Apple Sony monitor.

-- 
"Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	julian@riacs.edu