Color station screen was turned OFF (but still power ON)? how and why?

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From: jypai
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:37

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About one month ago, I posted to ask
"how to turn off a ( monochrome) NeXT station's screen"
I received several answers. ALL of them told me that's impossible to 
turn it off completely.

But now I encountered one thing which makes me reconsidering its possibility:
One user turned off my color station WITHOUT turning off the its power.
Since I don't know any command that can bring it back, I power NeXT down,
then up, to turn ON the monitor. (rebooting doesn't turn it ON).

So I have 2 questions:
1. how was it done? That guy used some magic that I'm not aware of.
2. If it can be done on Color, can it be done on Mono?


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Yuan
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Subject: Color station screen was turned OFF (but still power ON)? how and why?
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