RE: BattleZone monitor centering

From: Brian Feldges <BFELDGES_at_trendmasters.com>
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 14:35:35 EDT

Once the phosphor is burned off the center, does that mean there's nothing
to block the electrons from firing straight into your face, causing a large
brain tumor that provokes you to buy more vector games than you have room
for?

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Jess Askey [SMTP:jess@magenta.com]
        Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 12:54 PM
        To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
        Subject: Re: BattleZone monitor centering

        Zonn wrote:
> Burn in can happen in a matter of seconds! When I was new to
vector
> monitors I was playing with the brightness on a Tempest and wasn't
> really watching the screen carefully. Trust me, you can take out
the
> center pixels on a Tempest in less than a second if your not
careful
> -- oh well, those center dots aren't used all that much in Tempest
> anyways!

        plus.... once you burn the phosphor off in the center, you won't
have that annoying speck
        anymore!! :-)
Received on Thu Sep 9 13:29:36 1999

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