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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NEC 4FG Problems
- Summary: also on 5FG (anyone know about 6FG?)
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.27@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 00:20:39 GMT
- References: <881404m.4.726423539@axe.acadiau.ca> <1993Jan7.230838.14290@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan7.230838.14290@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> yee@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Paul Yee) writes:
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- >In article <881404m.4.726423539@axe.acadiau.ca> 881404m@axe.acadiau.ca (SEAN MICHAEL MCCORMICK) writes:
- >>I bought a NEC 4FG in November of last year and I had to bring it back
- >>because the picture was tilted downward on the left side of the screen and
- >>the upper corners were unfocused.
-
- >[story about NEC service woes deleted for sake of brevity]
-
- >>Has anybody experienced similar problems?
- >The moral of the story: NEC can't get things right even in a year and a
- >half after introducing the FG series - I don't think that it speaks well
- >of their engineering abilities, to put it politely (and I am an EE, so I
- >know whereof I speak).
-
- We've been getting 17 inch monitors galore, these as well as the Mag 17
- inchers. Also teh Gateway 2000 15 inch ones that come with the
- top of the line 486's.
-
- Every single one has had to be adjusted. Only one out of maybe
- 10 or 12 was not adjustable to spec. You need a skilled tweaker; we're
- big enough to have one in house, thankfully.
-
- My particular MAG 17 needed focusing.
-
- Doug McDonald
-