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From: ron@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Ron Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: terminals in southern hemisphere
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Date: 23 Feb 89 15:14:02 GMT
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Re: Magnetic Fields and CRT performance


Indeed there is a difference in performance of color CRTs in Australia.

Hewlett-Packard has had several different product designs over the last
5 years for color displays. All of them were affected by the difference
in the Earth magnetic field between where the unit was aligned and where
it was installed in Australia. Not all of them were severely affected but
it quite true that there is an effect. 

One report for a delta gun CRT was that each of the gun colors was shifted 
by one on a particular unit. (I have my doubts but it makes a good story!)

Ron Miller
H-P 
Colorado Computer Manufacturing Operation