[Bulk] Re: HP CRT mould update

Joe R. rigdonj at cfl.rr.com
Tue Apr 19 06:38:48 CDT 2005


At 11:07 PM 4/18/05 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:40 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> The HP300 at the Computer History Museum has the same "mold" effects, as
>> does a 2648 I've got in my warehouse.  HP CRTs (especially the elongated
>> ones found on the mentioned machines) seem to be more typically
>> susceptible to this effect than other CRTs.  I wonder what it is about
>> them?

    I've seen it on a HP 9835 and several HP 9845s. The 9845s seem to have
it even more often than the 264x terminals in my experience.


>
>Yep, I've not seen it on much else. Digico springs to mind, plus a
>couple of others that we have whose names escape me right now - but it's
>almost exclusively the HP stuff.

    I'll agree with that!

    Joe



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