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On 11/18/2012 10:46 AM, the wharf rat wrote:
> 	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.
>

These were LCD 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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