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- From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
- Subject: Re: SM 124 Size adjustment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.120752.18184@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- References: <2b649c75@f801.n281.z2.fidonet>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:07:52 GMT
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- Erno_Meffert@f801.n281.z2.fidonet writes:
- : In a message of <Thu 21 Jan 93 06:33>, Trevor Pearson (2:281/202.0) writes:
- :
- : TP> I know it is possible to increase the miserable size of the active
- : TP> display on SM 124 monitors. Does anybody know the trick? I have
- : TP> tried the internal horizontal and vertical size adjustments, and
- : TP> while there is no problem with vertical size, I cannot get the
- : TP> horizontal size more than about 2/3 of the screen using the inductor
- : TP> slug. Does anybody know why the active display area is set so small
- : TP> at the factory? Were they just trying to be as bad as the MAC?
- :
- : You shouldn't do this.Increasing the size of the screen often goes with
- : increasing the voltage on several component's in the monitor.Atari has
- : stated that increasing the screen using the potentiometers in the SM124 can
- : kill the flyback unit after some time.
- :
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- I did this over 2 years ago, and never had any problems with my sm124...
- Of course this doesn't mean it will work anyone else, but it sure is
- nice to have only 1.5cm borders!
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