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In article <13...@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ad...@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
>I have a small green video terminal that I use occasionally to test
>programs which need well-formatted output and I don't have access to
>a printer.
>
>Sometimes the screen will start whining in an extrordinarily annoying
>pitch (~10kHz). The cure? Hit the side front of the monitor with a
>hard object. When I'm doing a lot of work with the terminal, I keep a
>small hammer on top of the honitor for such occasions.

Purdue has a large number of Zenith z29 terminals in their public
terminal sites, which I use rather frequently.  Several of these have
a similar tendency to squeal, only these do so at ~20kHz, which is
above most people's audible range.  Alas, not mine.  I have been known
to stalk the room tracking down the squealer (it's not easy to
directionalize that noise) and then smack the terminal about several
times until it stops.  Now, if there are other people (who probably
can't hear the squeal), they start to wonder what the f*ck I'm doing
beating up on terminals.....
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