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Sun used to sell different (large) CRT monitors to northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere.
Apparently the magnetic field was reversed and the CRT guns would be pre-aligned for the correct part of the world.
(insert northern vs southern hemisphere toilet joke)
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Sun used to sell different (large) CRT monitors to northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere.
Apparently the magnetic field was reversed and the CRT guns would be pre-aligned for the correct part of the world.
(insert northern vs southern hemisphere toilet joke)