Re: Apple RGB Monitor Making Very High Pitched Noise

["Adam Gurno -- \"Certified Geek\"" <gurnoab@cda.mrs.umn.edu>]

On 6 Dec 1995, Michael Sean Madill wrote:

>     Two of my Apple RGB monitors can't be used because the kids in my
> class say they make a high pitched noise that bothers them. It is too

Aha!  I _knew_ I wasn't alone!  Way back, for me at least, in the mid-late 
eighties, I took a class at the local CommCollege in "intro to computers" or 
something like that.  It was one of those courses that you take as a kid 
to look really cool.  Anyways, the teacher used to use a computer with a 
LCD display on an overhead, and also a monitor for him.  (some sort of 
ibm clone)  Anyways, I used to physically cringe when he turned on that 
monitor, because the thing would squeal SO LOUD that I would get a 
headache for days.  No one else seemed to be affected this way.  It was 
unreal.  I was about 40-50 feet away from him and my eyes used to water 
when he would turn that demon on.  My point is: be kind.  This is very, 
very, VERY real.  Those kids may be really, really, really suffering.  
Try and change to a different monitor.
	Here's a test you can run on them to see if they are legit: (this 
one used to amaze my friends time and time again...)  Go into the 
computer lab, assuming you have one, during a time when there is no one 
in there.  Turn on one monitor.  Bring in the student with his eyes 
closed.  Walk him/her around the lab, as they home in on the monitor. 
(hotter, colder, whatever)  If they are legit, they will get it 
everytime.  Then leave them all on, and bring them in, and see if they 
try and find it.  They'll be able to tell that there are none on, wait 
and see.  These "tests" used to win me quite a bit of cash around the school.

Adam "Still got an 'A'" Gurno

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