The Classic II (and others newer than the earliest Macs) had bleeder resistors to discharge the CRT automatically. Older monitors and TVs did not, so manually d

The Classic II (and others newer than the earliest Macs) had bleeder resistors to discharge the CRT automatically. Older monitors and TVs did not, so manually discharging was more important. The procedure was still to manually discharge the newer machines in case the bleeder resistor failed, but whenever I discharge the CRT of anything newer than a Mac Plus it’s already discharged well before I touch the grounded screwdriver to the underside of the anode cap.