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DaveC426913 said:A sufficiently strong magnet, held sufficiently close, for a sufficiently long time can and will destroy data on a hard drive.
The conflicting true versus false claims you have heard are almost certainly based on an arbitrary definition of "sufficient".
On the other hand, I don't know if a magnet could do any damage to the computer system itself, except inasmuch as it could destroy the boot data stored on the hard drive, rendering the computer unbootable until a new system is installed.
BishopUser said:Well they can definately destroy CRT monitors as well. I did it by semi-accident as a child once (my parents were not amused).
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