On Friday, February 7, 2014 11:36:22 AM UTC-6, Califbill wrote:
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:25:09 -0600, Califbill

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Our monitors were pretty stable tho.



I was writing firmware using VT-52 and DEC systems for a 6800 based disk

controller in early 1980. 4 systems and 8 disk drives could be connected

together. Was a few years before the monitors improved. Later I used SUN

systems for a 68000 based controller.



The only ones we had that were chronically bad were the "Element

exchange" ones in the 80s. They were not repaired, you just replaced

them. IBM cost was $39 each.



Not many went bad. Was just the nature of the beast, that was hard in the

eyes.

Yep! The color monitor was a blessing!