Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: RFI, the FCC, and STs (was re: Talking about other computers here) Message-ID: <1990Dec16.065143.4471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 06:51:43 GMT References: <1990Dec3.195756.27537@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <479@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1990Dec7.115131.26377@lsuc.on.ca> <1990Dec10.210421.20757@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 17 >Not to mention that the FCC and VDE require you to attach something to every >port which can conceiveably be used simultaneously. For FCC testing, these >peripherals have to be turned on! So you get their emissions... Plus the horror stories of things like this: you hook up a monitor or printer or terminal (which supposedly has passed FCC), and *it* is putting out so much RFI that your own unit "fails". I can sympathize with Atari... we're going thru an FCC approval right now. Something always holds things up. For instance, first the lab wanted a ground strap on the keyboard connector. Okay, so they ship the unit back, the strap is installed, the unit goes back to the lab, but now it was damaged in shipping, etc etc. Then the lab is busy with other stuff. It goes on and on. What should take a week, takes literally months instead. Sometimes I'm surprised that *any* equipment actually makes it to market. - kevin