16 Jan
2002
16 Jan
'02
9:36 a.m.
BTW, does anyone know if there's an internal
adjustment to brighten these
up? It seems that a lot of the surviving NeXT mono screens have gone quite
dim.
Thanks,
Arlen Michaels
I believe that there *is* a pot inside that can brighten the monitor,
but I also believe that this is a common and well-known (at least on
the NeXT news groups) problem with the original monitors: they
eventually get very dim--more or less too dim to use. This happens, I
seem to remember, after only about 5,000 hours or so. It is a function
of the phosphor, it is not prevented by dimming the monitor, and it was
rectified in later versions of the monitor. (The details behind all of
that information escape me. I suspect you could post a request at
comp.sys.next.hardware, and you'd get a reply from someone who knows it
all right off the top of his or her head.)
Good luck!
PB Schechter