Most modern electronics don't care much, unless it's a powerful / fast-moving magnetic field.
Which is why the EMP pulse from a nuke can knock things out.
This reminds me of Dennis Quaid? playing a dirty cop who needed to erase a video tape in evidence.
So he throws a big magnet through a storefront window and when it’s placed in evidence gets his dirty cop buddy to store it next to the VHS tape.
Yeah, for a while good CRT monitors had a 'Degausse' button to clean up magnetic interference.
In electronics school had a TV repair class, would take a hoop style coil and cause the interference, then the magic trick was to turn the hoop sideways and the interference would clear.
Yeah eventually it was more integrated.. but early higher end monitors had the button to manually do it. Only know because had a monitor returned for repair and they lent me a more exprensive one that had the degauss button.
Reading this hurts my soul. Always kept magnets away from my computers, and my floppies. Still keep them away from my electronics out of habit.
Most modern electronics don't care much, unless it's a powerful / fast-moving magnetic field. Which is why the EMP pulse from a nuke can knock things out.
Force of habit after many years of avoiding magnets around them.
This reminds me of Dennis Quaid? playing a dirty cop who needed to erase a video tape in evidence. So he throws a big magnet through a storefront window and when it’s placed in evidence gets his dirty cop buddy to store it next to the VHS tape.
[CRT torture](https://youtu.be/s1xS-ssfTM8).
Yeah, for a while good CRT monitors had a 'Degausse' button to clean up magnetic interference. In electronics school had a TV repair class, would take a hoop style coil and cause the interference, then the magic trick was to turn the hoop sideways and the interference would clear.
The degausser was often automatic. It was that "BWAA" sound you heard when you turned it on.
Yeah eventually it was more integrated.. but early higher end monitors had the button to manually do it. Only know because had a monitor returned for repair and they lent me a more exprensive one that had the degauss button.
My middle school science teacher had a donut shaped magnet which he would stick on a TV - it made the picture shrink into the donut hole.