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Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Boioioioooung
Sorry, I see a degauss button I press it.
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Modern generations will never know what’s been lost.
When I was a kid we had an electric piano with a degauss button. It was more fun than learning to play.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 months ago
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they’d get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your class was a lot smarter than mine.
Mine weaponized the track balls from mice. Ever been pelted with one? Not fun.
Good way to train fine motor skills though because we had to learn how to use the mouse without the track balls. Had to move the two little wheeled sensors inside yourself. Bet most of our class still knows more keyboard shortcuts than normal to this day.
HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Back when we used to head over to someone’s house for a LAN, there was one guy that had a massive CRT monitor and if he degaussed while our monitors were close to his they’d all degauss.
None of ours were able to trigger other monitors, only his.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We had to constantly remind people not to leave their disks on top of the monitors in those days, because on some models the degaussing pulse was enough to erase a floppy disk.
I was also proud of my ownership of a large speaker magnet which had a highly directional magnetic field, and could cause tube monitors and TV’s go all paisley from about 20 feet away. I kept it stuck to the back of my steel garage door when not in use to keep it well away from all monitors, disks, and tapes.
clonedhuman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.
Ah, the good old days.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I used to work in a computer lab, open plan, where we all had CRTs. I sat across from the main DB admin, who had TWO monitors for all the work he was doing (wild stuff to have dual CRTs back in those days.) Due to the layout, my monitor sat in-between his, facing the opposite way of course. I loved degaussing my monitor because:
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 11 months ago
I remember fucking around with magnets to pull or push a desktop image and being scolded by a supervisor. “You’re going to break it!”
Break what? The photons? All I’m doing is the same thing the monitor itself is doing.
witchybitchy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
holy shit I accidentally pointed at the monitor (touched it) with a 6 inch thick magnet in the 4th grade. got in trouble for “possibly damaging the computer”. always felt stupid cuz how could I be so careless to point a magnet at a computer (I knew enough then to know that was a no-no). it’s good to know I didn’t actually fuck anything up (aside, changing memories of the past is time travel)