I had a 15" color monitor of 1983/84 vintage die a very spectacular death back in about 1991/92 (those things were HUGE, I think it was about as big as a 21" is now). I turned on the H-100 8088 (yes, I was still using the Heathkit 8088 with no hard drive at home), then turned on the monitor. All of a sudden POP!, smoke comes billowing out, the room filled with stenchy electrical fire smoke, the flyback transformer had fried. So, I went and hooked up my trusty 13" monochrome monitor and it died too, no smoke or flames, just a silent death. I was heart broken, that was the end of my $7,000 investment from about 8/9 years before. I started using an 80286 a while later... > It died a flaming, smoking death in '93/94 > after it booted up with various characters across the screen. > > Shawn > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >