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- From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
- Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
- Message-ID: <markus.188.721401688@clement.info.umoncton.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Moncton
- References: <1992Nov09.202601.12715@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <22279@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:21:28 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <22279@drutx.ATT.COM> dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040) writes:
- >From: dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040)
- >Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
- >Date: 9 Nov 92 22:41:12 GMT
-
- >From article <1992Nov09.202601.12715@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, by bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas):
- >> My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
- >> a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.
-
- >Well, I've heard of degaussers ... but it sounds like your son found
- >himself a "gausser". Does your monitor have a degauss button? Mine
- >doesn't, but I seem to remember that if I power it down for a while
- >(5 minutes? 1 hour? ???) it will degauss itself when it is turned
- >back on. I don't remember if I read this in my manual or if it was
- >throw at me by a salesdroid just trying to make a sale. Anyway, you
- >might try it - it couldn't hurt.
-
- One of my friend just put the monitor screen-down for 24 hours and the
- problem disappeared.
-
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