Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!bart!depeche From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT's (was Re: Talking about other computers here) Message-ID: <98@bart.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 5 Dec 90 15:21:56 GMT References: <7340043@hpfcso.HP.COM> Organization: Save the Missippi Riverboat Paddlewheel Fund Lines: 39 In article <7340043@hpfcso.HP.COM> mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) writes: >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. My supercharger causes lots of interference with my cordless phone. There's a little red "data" light which goes on every time my screen's contents are changed (i.e. every time a character is written to a screen, or whatever). So I have a corner clock on my computer, and the time changes every second. If I'm on the phone, I hear high-pitched little beeps which last a milisecond or so, almost as if a radar is scanning me or something. First time this happened, I didn't know WHAT to do.. what's really fun though is when I am on the phone, and my idle screen saver kicks in. All of a sudden the screen is filled with fireworks, and every time a pixel is written to the screen, "blip"... Actually, the blips in a strange way make the fireworks more interesting. One time I was talking to someone, heard the noise and saw my screen, and just stopped talking in mid sentence.... hello? hello? the person on the other end just heard some weird sounds, and almost hung up on me.... -- |S. Alan Ezust | depeche@cs.mcgill.ca | |McGill University School of Computer Science | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Sing while you may, only LOUDER!" |