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Started by ca... Crispin Goswell
Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:00
Sensitive ears (was Re: One swift kick cures all)
Author: ca... Crispin Goswell
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:00
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:00
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>From: tk...@carroll1.cc.edu (Tom Kopp)
>Subject: Re: One swift kick cures all
>
>In article <62...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> g...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ford Prefect) writes:
>|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.
>
>Scott...
>
>I know the feeling. I too am 'blessed' with sensitive ears. What REALLY
>gets me irritated at times is that I hear strange noises, and track them down
>as having come from a powered up TV or computer monitor, esp. those w/ no
>'image' being displayed. I did some research and found out where this is
>coming from. One of the retrace pulses in the monitors is usually in the
>18-20Khz range. It is this that I've been hearing.
You too huh? I seem to be the only person around my place of work who is
bothered by these. I can hear just about any ordinary VDU - in fact I find
it unpleasant to stay in the same room as one for more than ten minutes.
Colour PCs are the worst offenders.
Fortunately, these days I work solely with Workstations which, if they
whistle, do so on a frequency well above even my hearing.
Maybe I haven't been to enough rock concerts...
Not surprisingly I don't watch all that much TV either.
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