On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:37, chris wrote:
> >> The kind magnets will stick to.
> >> Hold the magnet on the screen of a CRT to see similar distortion.
> >
> >Please don't do that unless you want a semi-permanent distortion
> > field in the middle of your screen.
>
> Don't worry, I don't keep magnets anywhere near my computers. So I
> couldn't test it even if I wanted to.
Well, I bet you have hard drives laying around with pretty strong
magnets in them... even my RL02s have some pretty hefty magnets that
attach the platter to the drive motor.
Pat
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Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 12:13:17 BST