I re(member/call) when my huge CRT monitor went bonker when one/1 of the work people brought in a cart near my cubicle. I think there were magnets in it.

Used to work in chip manufacturing in a wafer fab. My work area was next to the Ion Implanters. There was a 15 foot gap between our area and theirs as the implanters created huge magnetic fields that screwed up the monitors and computers used in our area. We were expecting to get some new sun sparc workstations for use and had just been waiting for delivery. On the day they arrived I had an hour for lunch and an hour long production meeting. On the way back in to the fab. I see the IT guys leaving and ask if they had installed them. Lead IT guy "Yep, We were told it was crowded in your area but found you had this huge open space there so we set them up right up against the far wall giving you a lot more space to work in." Just as I hear 3 of the huge implanters start up..... Six Sun SPARCstation 5's killed in one day..... around 53k in costs. Fried.... I almost cried. We had really been waiting on those new 17" screens. A lot of people had their asses chewed off on that fuck up.

I think the worst that probably happened to the computer was a) disk erasure, and looking at the boot error 2) the cmos battery was sucked out of its socket.

...and the deGauss button whimpers and crawls up the anus of the computer monitor.

Spot the faux-black hole @3:20. I wonder what principles that shares, if any.