25 Aug
2021
25 Aug
'21
11:46 a.m.
On Aug 25, 2021, at 2:21 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 7:17 PM Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
No they aren't. If that were true they would mess up if you turn them (horizontally)
90 degrees, or move from Canada to Equador.
If you're in a place where the magnetic inclination (dip) is 45 degrees -- say,
FLorida or Israel, and your monitor is oriented east/west, turning it between landscape
and portrait affects the applied field direction in exactly the same way as swiveling it
180 degrees does.
It if't a particularly sensitive monitor you may need to redo the convergence
adjustment if you do any of these motions, but it certainly should not be a problem to
make it work.
paul
Landscape monitors work fine as portrait for me when I turn them on their
side.
You may have problems converging a colour CRT, particularly an in-line
gun type, if you do that. They are designed for the earth's magnetic
field to come in a particular direction.