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From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: Stay Away from MAG Innovision!!!
Message-ID: <1993Apr16.104950.22113@walter.cray.com>
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Date: 16 Apr 93 10:49:49 CDT

Kenneth Ng (ken@sugra.uucp) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr12.114727.7059@walter.cray.com: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot) writes:
: :Peter Clark (pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu) wrote:
: :: Interesting.  You seem to be the only person I have ever heard of who
: :: has had a problem with MAG like that.  I have a MAG MX15F myself, no
: :: problems.  I liked it so much I showed it to a bunch of my friends: 6 of
: :: them went out and bought them, no problems.  All Gateway 2000 Crystal
: :: Scan monitors are MAG Innovisions.  I've not heard many Gateway people
: :: griping about their monitors.  Seems like you got the bad apple.

I wrote:
: :You haven't heard Gateway customers griping about their monitors?
: :Where have you been? I have never seen as many complaints on the
: :net about anything else above the famous GW CS monitor flamefest.

: The bulk of the GW CS monitor complaints (to which I can add my complaint)
: is for the older monitor that really comes from Tatung.  After getting mine
: repaired by Tatung a year ago, it is starting to flake out again.  I'll be
: looking into NEC3DS and MAG 15F for my next monitors.

Does anyone know when they stopped using those Tatung monitors? I
bought my system in Feb. '91 and it definitely had the Mag monitor. 
That one, and it's replacement failed within 16 months. I gave up
and went to a CompuAdd store and bought a 15" monitor there. I have
no idea who makes those. No problems in about a year so far. (Knock
of Wood!)

So, does anyone know who makes the CompuAdd 15" flat screen monitor?
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