Quick electronics question.

[JoeHova]

Hi everybody. I'm rearranging some stuff in my spare room and the way things ended up, I have a computer (flat screen imac) next to a cathode ray tube television. After I rearranged everything, I realized that CRT TVs create an electromagnetic field. Does anyone know if that field is strong enough to affect the hard drive on a computer? I like the way things are organized now so I don't really want to change it again but I also don't want to mess up my computer by having it too near to a magnetic field. I assume it will probably be fine because DVRs and video game systems have hard drives but the stuff I have on the computer is far more important than what I have on those and I don't want to risk losing it just because I have the computer placed in a bad spot.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

[1992casey]

I'm no expert, but think about how many systems back in the days of CRT that had either:

• a CRT monitor built into the computer itself
  
• a CRT monitor plopped on top of the CPU

Don't go by my opinion alone, but my gut says you're OK.

[JoeHova]

Thanks for the help casey! Good point about old monitors. I guess I'll give it a shot, I really like how the room is laid out now.