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- From: wayner@otc.otca.oz.au (Wayne Robinson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: HP Monitor models
- Message-ID: <6773@otc.otca.oz>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:45:53 GMT
- References: <13960@pogo.wv.tek.com> <9211181307.AA04079@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
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- Organization: R&D, OTC Sydney, Australia
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- In article <9211181307.AA04079@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, rst@ukc.ac.uk writes:
- > In article <13960@pogo.wv.tek.com> pogo write:
- > >
- > >In article <1992Nov12.172127.25913@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas) writes:
- > >>[stuff]
- > >
- > >Has to do with the degauss coil. The Earth's magnetic field is enough to
- > >distort either very large or very high quality color displays. When I sold
- > >home electronics as a summer job one year, our 30 inch color TV's had a
- > >small switch in the back for Northern or Southern hemispheres.
- >
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- I had to send a Communications Signal Analyser back to the local branch of
- the supplier to have the monitor adjusted (ridiculously high quality, 8 inch).
- It arrived, having been calibrated in the US, with filthy purity problems,
- and T*ktronics blamed the Earth's mag field in the repair report.
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- >
- > >Reality is often stranger than fiction!
- > Reality? What's that?
- Something that only happens to other people.
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