Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: 50Hz (was re: A2320) Message-ID: <18696@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 02:25:28 GMT References: <1991Jan29.054742.18143@cs.mcgill.ca> <3898@rwthinf.UUCP> <18245@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3901@rwthinf.UUCP> <189bc930.ARN13b6@venus.UUCP> <18435@cbmvax.commodore.com> <189ee486.ARN13cf@venus.UUCP> <18528@cbmvax.commodore.co Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 In article <20424@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >Don't want to freak you guys out or anything, but 220-240V is usually run >at 50 Hz, because 60 Hz is the ideal frequency for causing >ventricular fibrillation, when someone gets electricuted, while 50 Hz >is on the rapid down slope to not-so-bad-after-all. In other words, we >occasionally get to see a slow beat moving its way down the screen from >a great distance, which is not normally noticable. And we do get the other >1/4 of the screen to use! Folklore. Yes, you get an extra 1/4 screen - but do you dare use interlace? ;-) -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)