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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Possible to upgrade PC from FCC Class B to A?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.200550.14479@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov16.192730.23028@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov16.213442.3829@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Nov17.044807.28760@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:05:50 GMT
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- mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
- >Seriously, the FCC has been known to raid exhibits at COMDEX. The FCC
- >has been involved in regulating incidental emissions ever since the 1950s,
- >when there was a rash of TV sets interfering with each other via their
- >local oscillators. Uncertified computers are rather uncommon on the market
- >in this country.
-
- And a good thing, too. The FCC has done a good job in this area.
- Remember when a TRS-80 model I and a Milton Bradley Big Trak toy would
- crash each other if brought within a few feet? In the late '70s, there was
- real fear that a big chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum would be
- completely unusable for radio in urban areas. Tight standards by
- the FCC and the comparable German and Japanese authorities avoided this
- fate, and now you can fill offices up with electronic equipment without
- worrying about electromagnetic compatibility.
-
- Think of the alternative: long lists in the computer magazines of
- what interferes with what, running around offices with field strength
- meters trying to find out what's knocking what off the air, inability to
- use a computer and a TV in the same apartment building, landlords
- prohibiting computer use...
-
- John Nagle
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- John Nagle
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