IBM 5151 (MDA display) - common faults / gotchas?

[Michael Holley]

I also lost a 5151 monitor to a program crash, it was "Gone in Sixty
Seconds" or less. I replaced it with a third party monitor that had the
advertised feature of not burning up due to lost sync.

Michael Holley
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Subject: Re: IBM 5151 (MDA display) - common faults / gotchas?

I'll add this to the 5151 issue.   Because the 5151 responds to *every* 
horizontal sync pulse, it's quite possible to toast the flyback transformer
with the wrong frequency.  I know--I've done it.

Contrast with a simple astable multivibrator which would simply lose synch .

--Chuck