Re: New GS owner questions

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Wholly Mindless wrote:
> 
> The good news is that the THUNK is what they all do - apparently this the
> automatic degaussing feature that many crts had.
> 

I had assumed that it was just the sound of high tension entering the CRT.

I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that the AppleColor RGB has a
degausser.

I once was party to quite the shenanigan involving my GS monitor: I had been
fooling about with a rare-earth metal magnet (liberated from a 1992-era
Quantum hard disk drive), pulling the electron gun until rather a nasty
blotch took up residence on the screen. Well of course it had no intentions
of leaving!

The solution I devised was to lift the GS monitor and hold its screen flat
against the screen of my Mac mini's 17" CRT. I powered on the larger
monitor, whose automatic degausser was only too happy to assist with the GS
monitor as well.

An amusing solution, I'm sure.

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