[Coco] Degauss an old CM-8

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 23, 2015, at 4:26 AM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As Robert noted, use a de-gaussing coil - don't dare with a magnet, some
> daredevils used to get away with it back in the day but the chances of
> actually imprinting a bigger magnetic field on the CRT screen mesh are far
> too great. to ignore.

There seems to be hundreds of demonstration videos of people doing it successfully with magnets on YouTube :) Yep, like many successful things, it may work, but it's still wrong. Since I do not have a de-gaussing coil, a magnetic source is my only option. I don't expect I could even find a TV repair shop in town these days and if I did, I bet their bench fee to flip a button and wave something around my screen would be more than the monitor is worth.

Sad, old hardware. If I spend any money, it's gonna be on an LCD TV so I can run Roy's VGA adapter and composite. Hopefully.

		-- A