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Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?

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From: a... GRYGUS
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
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In <DxMFKr.Fz....@torfree.net> bb...@torfree.net (Eric Gallas)
writes: 

>When doing some television alignment years back, it occured to me, the

>easiest way to determine the field strength of a magnet was to hold it
to 
>the screen of a television (switched on of course), and observe the
video 
>effects, perhaps you could be more accure using a TV test generator,
and 
>a camera on a tripod to measure the effects.

Yes, you can do this with a VGA color monitor.  A strong magnet will
lightly magnetize the dot mask, causing lingering color aberations. 
Yes, they eventually go away, that's what the degausing coil is for. 

Andrew Grygus  -  California Republic
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From: a...@ix.netcom.com(ANDREW GRYGUS )
Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/09/12
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