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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New CBM stereo speakers (question)
Message-ID: <11270@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 03:21:19 GMT
References: <5126@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5126@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
> 
> 	CBM now sells these little stereo speakers to attach to an
> Amiga's stereo audio out jacks.  (Cost is about $30-40).
> 
> 	I have a question.  Speakers generate magnetic fields.  These
> speakers are going to be near disks, since they are near computers.
> Magnetic fields can erase disks.

Little speakers have little magnets that generate little magnetic fields
which become even littler in inverse proportion to distance squared.

I suspect that you can't get close enough to the magnet due to the casework,
but you might wish to experiment before you use the speakers for bookends for
your diskette collection.

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