£10, please, sir. £10 for thumping the set?
50p for the thump. £9.50 for knowing where to thump it.
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Adjusting a TV
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Well, the hardware is. The software is a different matter ...
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Old but good.
When I worked for ITT, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we had some crappy ITT B&W monitors (probably VT100 clones, but TBH, I don't remember) which had a fault where the display went away and could be rectified by thumping them. Conveniently, they had stuck the ITT logo in exactly the right place where you had to hit them.
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True. But then the first software many of us had to deal with TV wise was teletext. And that used to frustrate too.
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What used to happen a lot was 'dry' solder joints to the line output transformer. Which used to vibrate quite a bit and at a high frequency. Causing metal fatigue in the solder rather more quickly than with a mains transformer.
Used to reflow all of those as a matter of course if the back ever had to come off.
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I had a Teletext adaptor for my Spectrum and you could download programs OTA with it.
Ok, it was a bit like night fishing but interesting none the less. ;-)
Cheers, T i m
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The old RTFM often can work wonders of course. Brian
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I'm sure that setting still exists in windows 10. I use windows 7, not because of this or any other prejudice but I rebel against effectively having a completely new untested version of Windows installed every half a year with all the attendant resets of parameters needed and incompatibility of software already running OK and indeed complete removal of some software on the excuse you need to buy microsofts new version of office when the old stuff worked perfectly well till then. Brian