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From: chow@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Subject: Re: Ehman monitors
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Date: Sat, 4 May 1991 15:37:45 GMT

In article <1991May3.132758.32304@europa.asd.contel.com> john@killer.UUCP (John Schettino  x4156) writes:
.In article <80740@bu.edu.bu.edu> ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes) writes:
..The Ehman full- and two-page monochrome monitors receive rave reviews
..in the latest MacWorld, and the prices are quite attractive ($495 and
..$895, with expansion card). Has anyone out there ever seen one of these
..babies in action?
.
.Yes! I have an Ehman full-page mono monitor on my IIci at home, and
.it's great! The image is brite and sharp, and the card was easy
.to install. The tube is pretty curved (ie, you'd never think
.it was a flat-panel display!)

.My suggestion is to spend the extra $400 and get the two-pager if
.you do serious DTP as you'll want the extra room for pop-ups,
.pallettes, etc. For casual use, the extra real estate and ease
.of a full page display cannot be beat.

In my opinion, if you go ahead a purchase an Eham 2-page display you will 
seriously regret your decision. Last year I purchased one of their 2-page
displays and after two weeks it promptly died.

I called them up and eventually obtained a replacment monitor, which worked
for about two to three months when it too died of the same symptons. Both two 
page displays appeared to have died from power supply problems, and both 
exhibited symptons of a poorly designed power supply: The display could not 
hold the standard 50% grey desktop pattern across the entire screen without
distortion. I.e., looking at the display from time to time where the 50%
grey pattern had a visible interference pattern.

Since both my original monitor and the replacement monitor both died the
same way and exhibited the same symptons, I think the monitor has serious
design problems and should not be trusted. BTW, I noticed that Eham's recent
ads now picture a different looking 2-page display, but who know if they've
just redecorated the piece of junk I bought or if they changed the innards.
One thing clear, though is to stay far far away from them and their 
piece of junk 2-page display.

Christopher Chow
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