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To: Joe NYC who wrote (39414)	5/13/2001 10:47:22 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

josef, There was a lawsuit and the CSA/UL specs were amended to sho reality as the monitor size. In addition i think someglass changes were made to allow the monitors to comeout with 14 or 15 viewable so they couldkeep the fractions down to a minimum. There was a general size increase and an increase in deflection angle as well that made the glass change easier. I remember from 1953 when we bought 12 inch round CRTs with a squared off section in the front where we used to see the famous Buffalo test pattern for channel 4 here in Toronto. By 1955 it was squared tubes and a 21" was the circle through which you could pass a CRT(max outside ddimension) and a 21" was around 19, etc etc, yet we all knew. Now this monitor lawsuit, I was amazed that they won it. I suspect it was an economic decision, lawuit costs versus settlement costs, but I do not know the details. Made no diff here as we were told for years that a 21" was 19.x viewable and so there was little reason for them to succeed here.?? Bill