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diagonal bars on Mac 512K screen

I'm considering buying a Mac 512K system, and the seller sent me the image below. Any idea what would cause those wide diagonal bars?

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Could just be a bad photo - has the seller reported such an issue? If it is an actual fault, it could be something with the power supply more than the motherboard itself. That said, a good clean up of the internals might fix it.

JB

 
Looks like a normal digital photo of a CRT. The position of the scan lines at that moment are what cause that pattern in the photo. You don't actually see them in real life.

 
OK, thanks! I'm used to seeing a horizontal line when photographing a CRT, not multiple diagonal ones. Maybe something about the relative speeds of the camera and horizontal scan rate...

 
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