[Computerbank] monitor recall

[Tim Connors]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Julien Goodwin wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:17:39PM +0930, Romana Challans arranged a set of bits into the following:
> > IBM warns more monitors may be fire hazards
> > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,39115999,00.htm
>
> Of course thanks to the engineering of CRT's it should only affect one
> of the earth's hemispheres (in this case the northern). CRT's have to be
> built for the specific hemisphere that they are used in.

Their CRT has to be tuned a different way, given the earth's magnetic
fields (or perhaps you could overcome this by turning the CRT
upside-down? :), but the electronics all remain the same - so the
recall of the model number given would still be applicable to the southern
hemisphere.

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