From: joe@user.com   
      
   "Bill H"  wrote in message   
   news:1144273927.486815.92470@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Mike Y wrote:   
   > > "R Flowers"  wrote in message   
   > > news:zSUYf.81575$oL.24324@attbi_s71...   
   > > >   
   > > > "Mike Y"  wrote in message   
   news:BFUYf.42$1H4.17@fe06.lga...   
   > > > > Well, the Model 1 was finally made reliable.  Mostly.  Mine never   
   would   
   > > > > reset.  Except when the girl that lived in the apartment came home.   
   I   
   > > > > swear,   
   > > > > my computer could be on every day, all day, no problems.  Then she   
   would   
   > > > > get home about 6pm and the Model 1 would reset every few minutes   
   until   
   > > > > about 6:30 or a little after.  Then be fine.  All night.  Even over   
   > > night.   
   > > > > I tried   
   > > > > everything, but I never found out what it was.   
   > > >   
   > > > You have the beginning of a sweet Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movie. (Well,   
   sweet   
   > > if   
   > > > you like chick flicks.)   
   > > >   
   > > > -- R Flowers   
   > >   
   > > If she looked like Meg Ryan, I would have been up those steps   
   immediately   
   > > and   
   > > offering to do whatever she needed that appliance to do that was causing   
   the   
   > > electrical interference!!   
   > >   
   > > I'll be honest.  I've ALWAYS liked Meg Ryan.   
   >   
   > This is off topic (ie non Tandy) but along a similar vein. I had a   
   > Compaq 286 with CGA monitor setup in my living room up against a wall   
   > that had my daughters room on the other side. One evening I was   
   > programming the computer and my 3 year old daughter started laughing in   
   > her room yelling "I am using daddy's computer!" I went around the   
   > corner and her tv was displaying my computer monitor on it,   
   > superimposed over a barney tape she was watching. That compaq monitor   
   > must have had a bad RF problem for it to cross through the wall and   
   > show up on her TV. Or it may have been, since the CGA card had RGB   
   > output, the VCR may have been picking up the signal on Video in and   
   > putting it on there. Never did figure it out. Moved the computer and it   
   > stopped.   
   >   
   > Bill H   
   >   
      
   Ah...  tempest tempest!  Oops!  Not supposed to say that!   
      
   Actually, the monitor was probably just radiating everything, and the TV   
   locked on the sync pulses, and the video in probably wasn't shielded...   
      
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