18 Sep
2000
18 Sep
'00
9:56 a.m.
On 17 Sep 2000 08:27:38 -0000 Eric Smith
<eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
Bill Bradford wrote:
I picked up a Sony 17-inch monitor that had been returned
I had an old (but perfect-picture) IBM 8514
monitor in my garage "shop",
and during one rather energetic argument with my SO over "too much
computer equipment", she picked up the monitor and THREW it at the
ground (which was nothing more than thin carpet over concrete).
Plastic bezel/case cracked a bit. CRT stayed intact. I'm still debating
whether I should power it up and see if it still works. 8-)
I have a Sony KV25DXR 25" TV, a close relative of the famous KV25XBR.
Two moves ago I dropped it four feet onto asphalt. The plastic case
broke in many places, and a hissing noise came from it. I expected
that meant that the neck of the tube cracked. from a trip on a sonar survey boat as
"non-working".
Thinking that a 17-inch screen would be nice, I had a
look
inside. There were big blue glowing sparks inside the
glass of the tube neck. Closer examination with the power
off revealed that the neck was broken -- wiggling it made a
horrible crunchy "broken-glass" noise. The weight of the
RGB video amplifiers (supported only by the glass) had
snapped the tube.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England