On 12/5/2016 10:28 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 03:28:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 3:31:28 PM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> Magnets don't affect older fridges. it's the newer models with
>>> computer driven functions that are affected.
>>
>> I have a new fridge. The magnets on it are absolutely no problem.
>> Some of them are pretty powerful.
>
> Your's may not be a top of the line unit with computer control
> modules. Today's desktop PCs have plastic cabinets but years ago they
> had steel cabinets and people would use magnets to attach notes and
> wondered why they had problems
>
I don't know anyone who ever put a magnet on the metal case of a
computer. Post-it notes, sure. Magnets in such instances would
certainly screw up a hard drive (they act as degausser's). I worked in
I.T. and we knew better.

I don't want or need a refrigerator with all sorts of fancy electronics.
I don't need it to tell me what time it is. Don't need a video
display. Don't need it to tell me what's left in the fridge. A
refrigerator just needs to keep food cold. Keep it simple, you'll have
fewer problems.

The magnets on my fridge depict characters from the old children's
readers: Dick, Jane, little sister Sally, the dog Spot and the cat
Puff. Very whimsicle. I have a couple of cat magnets, too. One is
a clip shaped like a cat. It holds my shopping list.

Jill