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From: BVAUGHAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 PCs and FCC Class A and Class B certification.
Message-ID: <8371@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 17 May 89 15:57:19 GMT
References: <6930@bunny.GTE.COM> <5160@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
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In article <5160@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:

>In article <6930@bunny.GTE.COM> js07@GTE.COM (Jack Shaio) writes:
>>A recent issue of PC Magazine tested 100 386 PCs from many manufacturers.
>>A good proportion, around 30%, have only FCC Class A certification, meaning
>>they can cause enough RF (radio frequency) interference to damage
>>reception of TV and AM radio signals.
>
>Don't worry about it!  Unless you put your TV right next to your computer
>you'll never notice it.  I get more interference from adjacient televisions
>than from my (class A) computer.

My Compaq Portable III is upstairs; my TV is downstairs. Whenever I turn
on the computer, the TV picture becomes noticeably "grainier". I don't
remember whether it's Class A or B, and I suppose Princeton, NJ might
be called a fringe area (about 50 miles from both NY and Philadelphia
transmitters), but we normally have no reception problems.

Barbara Vaughan