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Originally Posted by kx250rider
I think that lots of CRTs were replaced unnecessarily back then. Easy job; big $.
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My favorite story about that is from around 1980 when I was working in the headquarters of a large corporation and one of our Sony monitors started misbehaving. We had that type of stuff serviced by a local TV repair guy. He took the set and brought it back a week later with a new Trinitron picture tube installed and a $300+ repair bill. Only problem was, the symptom was that the picture had collapsed into a horizontal line. Still, no one except me cared and he got away with it. I made sure we never used him again.
--Dave