How is it that our old TV gets fixed after I slapped it?

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I just remembered when I was a kid(Im on my 30’s now) we had this old “box style” television. As it got older, there were times that a white thing will appear on the screen. You can still watch the show but its annoying. Imagine watching your TV while having a white curtain in front of it. One day, I got extremely furious because I was watching Smackdown and slap the side of the TV. Then, it returned to normal. I kept doing the same solution I discovered every time the white thing appears on screen until one day it stopped functioning. 😂

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The Apple III would love to pipe in here. No fans or cooling vents would make that computer fail and the fix was to lift the chassis slightly off the desk and drop it to reseat the chips. My dad had one in his office and one in his home office. Wozniak claimed it had a 100% hardware failure rate.

My dad’s home unit still worked as of 2018. When he passed away in 2019, I took it home. My friend was getting it working and when he fired it up to show me, the PSU blew. I plan on restoring it one day when I get some free time.

My dad’s employer spent around $7k for that guy thing which is $28k in 2023 money! It was handy to have because it had the same printer as the school so I could print my own report cards and attendance records.

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