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From: cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: One swift kick cures all
Message-ID: <1066@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jan 90 11:43:56 GMT
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In article <6235@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gt4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ford Prefect)
writes:

>Purdue has a large number of Zenith z29 terminals in their public
>terminal sites, which I use rather frequently.  Several of these have
>a similar tendency to squeal, only these do so at ~20kHz, which is
>above most people's audible range.  Alas, not mine.  I have been known
>to stalk the room tracking down the squealer (it's not easy to
>directionalize that noise) and then smack the terminal about several
>times until it stops.  Now, if there are other people (who probably
>can't hear the squeal), they start to wonder what the f*ck I'm doing
>beating up on terminals.....
 
	This technical approach does not, of course, simply end with complex
 computers/terminals, but extends way back into the past when my rather
prehistoric TV was made. I have lived in the house I'm in now since June, and
the TV came as part of the rent agreement, and for a while, it would start to
whistle and squeal and would be quite happy to shut up on introduction of
violence (i.e. walk up to set, open hand wide, and ******BLAT!!!!******). Now,
however, it has developed immunity to this serious violence (having gone 
through a stage of needing harder and harder BLAT's to shut it up), so I now
watch a lot less telly than I used to. Perhaps it's a small electronic device
secreted in the set by a committee of opticians, or the Royal Society for the
Prevention of BLATting of Televisions. I dunno. I do know, however, that it's
a pain in the bum.

	Dave C, UEA, Norwich.