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From: jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: terminals in southern hemisphere
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Date: 15 Feb 89 17:24:10 GMT
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In article <6569@geac.UUCP> sean@geac.UUCP (Sean Phelan) writes:
>I've just received a message from a colleague in Australia.  The local
>representative of Wyse Technology, whose terminals we are starting to 
>use all over the world, is saying that the terminals have to be aligned
>differently in the Southern hemisphere, because the magnetic flux of the 
>Earth goes the opposite way.
>
>Now, this sounds to me like complete b*llsh*t, perhaps the kind of story
>a salesman uses to get a local order.  When I try dividing the Earth's

	Beleive it or not, this is all true. Terminals are indeed affected
	by the earth's magnetic field and will appear out of allignment
	if they are shipped from one hemisphere to another. The effect
	is a 'rotation of the screen image'. This is not a very big
	mis-allignment but it is enough for major customers to reject profduct
	because they may no longer meet our stringent allignment specs.

	Wyse has installed a system in our Taiwan plant which can emulate
	the magnetic field in any part of the world. This is used to
	allign units going to the southern hemisphere.

	Years ago, we had a similar problem with units going to Europe.
	At that time the solution was to allign the units while they were facing 	north-south. This solves the problem for Europe but not for
	Austrlaia.

	I hope this restores your trust in our sales reps.

Jim Munro

WYSE Technology.

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