Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!mjs From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT's (was Re: Talking about other computers here) Message-ID: <7340043@hpfcso.HP.COM> Date: 4 Dec 90 16:56:04 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 10 >Besides, even the stuff that did pass must've been marginal. My old >1040ST used to create snow on any TV I was watching in the same room. >Of course, matters didn't get much better when I removed the RF shielding >to make room for my RAM expansion board. :-) My favorite was always Emacs, which, when run from within Forthmacs, generated noise on my AM radio. I'd be working away, listening to the ballgame, but as soon as I netered Emacs, I got static. Not on disk access, mind you. The character read loop apparently went through exactly the right instruction sequence to generate noise at just the right frequency to interrupt KSFO.