[Cialug] Happy 17th b-day

[Anthony Jeffries]

Wow...I'd heard of Kentucky Fried Computers, but never KFC monitors!

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>wrote:

> Anthony Jeffries wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:34 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com<mailto:
>> dchampion at visionary.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     if you killed it fast enough the monitor wouldn't blow... unless
>>    it was a cheap KFC or Samtron piece of junk.
>>
>>
>> Kentucky Fried CRT?
>>
> That's a pretty close to what they were. A quick google reveals that the
> company that made them was called "Smile International", probably long since
> gone. They'd blow up on their own even if you didn't run them out of phase
> sometimes.
>
>
> -dc
>
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Tony
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