Cute magnet story (was: lcd blah blah blah)

From	wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Cute magnet story (was: lcd blah blah blah)
Date	2012-11-18 18:46 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
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	I was doing system administration for an R&D group of about 40 
really world class computer scientists.  They all used Sun workstations,
ELC (the little box) or umm whatver the all-in-ones were, the monitor had the
motherboard in a slot behind it...  Anyway, one day I get a call, Marsha's 
monitor was broken.  These were 20 inch color monitors, the best graphics
in the business except for SGI and they weighed like 50 pounds, so I put
a spare on a cart and wheeled it down to Marsha's office.

	Sure enough, her monitor had all kinds of wierd distortion, so I turned
it off and swapped the spare in.  About an hour later I get a call from 
Marsha.  She wants to know when I'm going to fix her monitor.  Hmmmm.  I walk
down and look at the screen of the new unit, which has the same wierd distortion
the first one had.  

	Ok....  I scrounge up another 20 inch color Sun monitor, and wheel it
down to install it.  This time Marsha's in the office, and she feels bad about
making me come back again so she tries to help by moving the stuff on her
desk out of the way.  As soon as she moves her new high-intensity halogen 
desk lamp...the monitor picture goes back to its usual hi-res perfection.

	I stop unpacking the new one and move the lamp back.  Weird distortion.
Move it away, no problem.  We moved the lamp  to the other side of the desk
so she could have light *and* color graphics and I spent the next hour going
into people's offices with an old speaker magnet to show them the wierd
stuff magnets did to Sun monitors.

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  Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-14 22:29 +0000
    Re: Laptop Screen Problem Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-11-16 04:15 -0800
      Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-16 18:39 +0000
        Re: Laptop Screen Problem mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2012-11-16 13:52 -0800
          Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-17 01:14 +0000
            Re: Laptop Screen Problem mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2012-11-16 20:20 -0800
              Re: Laptop Screen Problem Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 07:08 -0800
              Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-17 17:44 +0000
                Re: Laptop Screen Problem mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2012-11-17 18:04 -0800
                Re: Laptop Screen Problem Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-17 22:30 -0500
                Cute magnet story (was: lcd blah blah blah) wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-18 18:46 +0000
                Re: Cute magnet story mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2012-11-18 13:14 -0800
                Re: Cute magnet story wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-19 06:30 +0000
                Re: Cute magnet story ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-11-24 22:44 +0000
                Re: Cute magnet story ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-11-24 22:38 +0000
                Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-18 18:24 +0000
        Re: Laptop Screen Problem Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 16:10 -0800
          Re: Laptop Screen Problem wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2012-11-19 06:39 +0000

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