19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
7:14 a.m.
Of the monitors I have, there is mold or ??? under the front glass on
the screens of:
* ADM3 Terminal (or ADM3A, don't remember)
* Soroc IQ120
* HP Terminal (don't recall model)
* DIGITAL monitor (don't recall model, but 12" or so screen)
The HP Terminal was stored in a station wagon, others were stored in the
garage and back porch. I don't remember seeing mold on any monitors used
for the IBM PCs or Apple computers. The weather here is mostly moderate
all year long, and I am about 3 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
Hmm. I've never seen it on one. I expect that the source of the device
and where/how they were stored makes a big difference.
Joe
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:40 -0700, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
Another product where you see this effect consistently is with ADM 3A
terminals. The HP300 at the Computer History Museum has the
same "mold" effects, as
does a 2648 I've got in my warehouse. HP CRTs (especially the elongated
ones found on the mentioned machines) seem to be more typically
susceptible to this effect than other CRTs. I wonder what it is about
them?
Yep, I've not seen it on much else. Digico springs to mind, plus a
couple of others that we have whose names escape me right now - but it's
almost exclusively the HP stuff.