>> The kind magnets will stick to.
>> Hold the magnet on the screen of a CRT to see similar distortion.
>
>Please don't do that unless you want a semi-permanent distortion field in
>the middle of your screen.
Don't worry, I don't keep magnets anywhere near my computers. So I
couldn't test it even if I wanted to.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> As for stacking tubes one on top of the other - if it's just the one
>that's causing the magnetic pollution, I'd be inclined to chuck it (at
>your appropriate nearby E-Cycling facility of course!) and just get
>another. They're common as dirt and as folks trade up to LCD screens, CRT
>monitors are hitting the recycle streams in epidemic quantities. Nobody
>wants a 100-pound 23" CRT that takes up half the desk anymore...
That thought crossed my mind on my previous email. I picked the monitor
I'm useing because it is old and not a very nice one. Since it will spend
most of its life idle, it seemed a good task for it. But it did dawn on
me that the fact that it is old may very well be the source of the
problem.
I'm going to try swapping it for a newer monitor later today and see if
the problem goes away.
> And Home Depot. Lowe's, etc are going to stick it to you if you buy such
>materials there... it's unbelievably outrageous what the charge for bar
>stock, angles, and sheets.... any little funk metal shop or machine shop
>will have tons of this stuff lying around for cheap...
I'm not sure where else around me to buy the stuff. I'll have to ask a
friend of mine that does metal sculptures where he buys his steel. There
has to be someplace better around here.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>>Any particular kind of steel?
>
>The kind magnets will stick to.
>Hold the magnet on the screen of a CRT to see similar distortion.
I know the stuff I can get cheap is not magnetic. But Home Depot probably
has something that is, so I'll look around. Thanks!
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I met a real IC designer in a Job placement function located east of NYC.
I thought that all such jobs in the USA would be located in IBM,Silicon
Valley and the outer rings of Boston and told him he should spend a month
in Silicon Valley reaclimating himself to the current state of the art.
Aside from that he says he really doesn't want to move his family. I wonder
if he has a choice.
My question to the list is should he move to SV or does anybody know of
places to go in the Connecticut area?
John A.
I did a bit of looking, but couldn't find a cheap home brew solution, so
I'm asking here to pick the brains of the smart people on the list (or
dumb ones, I'm not picky).
I just added a 4th monitor to my desk. I have it stacked on top of
another monitor. However, when I turn it on, the one below it, and the
one next to it have their images distorted. I'm guessing it is some kind
of EMI that is screwing things up. The distortion is noticeable and
annoying.
My current solution is to turn off the 4th monitor when not in use.
However, I'd like to know if there is any kind of a cheap home brew EMI
filter I can put between the monitors. Something along the lines of
wrapping the monitor it foil, or putting some barrier between them.
I figure people on this list may have run into this before, and/or know
enough about the topic to be able to give me some decent advise.
Oh and in case anyone cares: a while back I asked about a Mac
keyboard/mouse tunneling program. I tracked it down, its called "Remote
Mouse & Key" (go figure). So far it works most of the time under OS 9.
I've noticed it sometimes fails to reconnect after a reboot (not a big
deal, I just go back into the control panel for it and reconnect with the
remote machine). More annoyingly, periodically, the keyboard/mouse will
stop responding. I think it happens with the remote machine goes to
sleep, but I haven't been able to verify that yet. Other than those
issues, it seems to work fine, and with the addition of my 4th monitor, I
no longer have the lag I had with Timbuktu.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I visited a hospital where they placed the computer room in the
basement. They installed a sump pump with a battery backup and placed
all of the wiring overhead in trays so it wouldn't get wet. I guess
they thought the computers would run if wet. They also placed a large
laser printer and 8 pallets of paper in the computer room, perhaps a
slight fire hazard.
Mike
a crate of 10 base network cards are available.
various mfrs. most are new in packaging...
anyone can use? trades? offers?
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
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I'm trying to resurrect a copy of Tom Pittman's 6502 Tiny Basic. Tom has paper tapes of
the binaries, and was willing to send me one in exchange for reading the tape and sending
him back some sort of machine-readable version of the contents. Not having a paper tape
reader, this would be a long, dragged-out process of my manually converting the entire
tape to binary by hand.
Is there anyone in the US that could do this for Tom? He might be happy just to have the
binary version (or the raw text) emailed to him.
If you can help, please let me know.
Bob
