[Gllug] bulk tape eraser sought - central London Area

[Andrew Farnsworth]

Anyone else remember the degaussing button on the back of Apple monitors?  Hit it
and the monitor made a very audible click-thung noise and the screen went all
wavery for about 20 seconds, then click and it was back to normal.

Ah, the good old days... when life was simple and the topography was weird
(uphill, both ways)...

Andy

On Wed Nov 19 13:59 , Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> sent:

>On Wed 19 Nov, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>> 
>
>> They actually have a 9T magnet, but the bore on it is barely big enough for a
>> (dead) mouse.  The 7T is big enough for a full human scan.  They don't make them
>> any bigger than that (or they didn't as of last summer).  They actually had to
>> have a building specifically designed from the ground up to handle the magnet,
>> then have it installed while the building was being built, and then tuned
>> carefully to be sure it imaged correctly.
>> 
>> Andy
>
>   No idea what was involved, and it was not in operation, but I visited a
>whole-ship de-gaussing dock a few years ago.
>
>-- 
>Chris Bell
>Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.

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