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From: crewman@bucsb.UUCP (Jerry J. Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Monitor Troubles
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Date: 8 Dec 88 02:38:50 GMT
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Reply-To: crewman@bucsb.bu.edu (Jerry Shekhel)
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While we're on the subject of monitor troubles, here's mine, and I think
this one's been discussed here before I got USENET access, but anyway,
here it is:

When I was in the market for an SM124 monochrome, I couldn't find one without
this problem (Jun-Sep '88).  It seems that when the screen is mostly black,
like when using Mark Williams msh, and there is very little white stuff on the
screen, the white stuff quickly fades out of view.  For example, if I call up
microEmacs on an empty file, it comes up with one line of white text (the
status line), which gradually fades out.  When I play Megaroids, by the time
there are only a few small things moving around on the screen, they're so dim I
think I'm going blind!  I went through 4 monitors with this problem, all made
in December 1987, and they all had this problem, while my friend's old SM124
works fine.  I finally bought one (I needed one for the Magic Sac) because it
did not seem like a serious problem (in most cases on a bright windowed screen
it would be unnoticeable), but now I use msh and Minix, and it's really
bothering me.  Please mail me any suggestions for a fix, or any other info
would be greatly appreciated.

		-- Jerry