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Re: iPad 2 cover vs. Floppy disks

Mitchell Spector wrote:

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:



schmidtd wrote:


Hint: the floppies lose.

So, it turns out... The magnets on the iPad 2 cover are pretty
strong.  You have been warned.
:-/


So making computers and accessories with strong, accessible
magnets is the latest sign that the floppy age is over...  ;-)

This would have been unheard of in the 1990s!



    Heh, reminds me of Apple's edition of the Bose Roommate
speakers that were promoted and sold for the IIGS in 1986.
Believe it or not they were not sheilded and produced a *very* strong magnetic field. So strong in fact, placing them next to your CRT monitor created that infamous rainbow distortion effect on screen (potentially damaging it long term). 

Actually, you can always degauss a CRT whose shadow mask
has become magnetized, though you may need to improvise
a degaussing coil these days.  ;-)

Given a source of a strong AC magnetic field, you can
fix any "rainbow" monitor in about 30 seconds.

-michael

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