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21st March 2012
drhowarddrfine
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Older monitors needed sync signals from the computer when you turned them on. Otherwise, the CRT "beam" would sit in the middle of the screen and burn it out or heat up the internal circuitry. CRTs soon added protection for that, of course.
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