HP screen screen rot

--- On Tue, 10/25/11, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: I always loved to tinker. I guess I wasn't imaginative enough at the time to do anymore w/them then what I did (dismantle them, gawk at the insides). I'm not sure what my intentions were, I guess I just saw more computering stuff, and they were cheap, so I said what the hay. It is funny though how little information is (was?) commonly available back then. I think my parents bought my Tandy 2000 a few years earlier, and until I took a 2nd job and earned enough to buy an NEC Multisync II (about 600$ back then, earned that standing guard over Christmas trees for 3 weeks, in not exactly the best of neighborhoods), I played around w/surplus monitors to see if I could get a picture w/the T2K's something less then standard video. And in reality it was all that unstandard. Well, I obtained a gorgeous actual 15" open frame ttl green monitor (Panasonic IIRC), intended for what I don't know, from a place in Massachusetts. What little it would have taken to get it to work, but since I knew next to nothing about electronics and whatnot, I didn't have the guts to tinker too much. Something might explode/implode I must have thought! I asked my goofy Fortran professor, and he rubbed his chin and did everything but give me an answer. You could wander many community colleges to this day and still not get an answer. I probably also read something in Byte or somewhere about altering the trimpots inside a monitor and endangering some part of your body as a result. There was nothing to restore in the case of these terminals I decimated LOL. They worked, just didn't seem to work w/anything I had. Unfortunately.