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Article #838Re: static discharges - the Murphy's Law Kid
From: mkku... Mary K. Kuhner335 Mulfor...
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 08:37
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 08:37
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In article <45...@rtech.rtech.com> fredb@llama.UUCP (Fred Buechler (Devil Mountain Consulting) HP Group writes: >Anyway, at that outdoor temperature most of the moisture in the air freezes >leaving the relative humidity at about 6%. We were always drawing huge arcs >whenever we got near anything that was grounded. >Fred Buechler Ah, yes, the pleasures of computing in Alaska. I used to scare new students with this at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. Walk up to the terminal shuffling my feet on the carpet, point at their painfully-typed-in-listing, and *ping* the screen goes blank! One could sometimes unhang hung terminals with this--a great way to impress students with the Nodie's divinity. "You just touched it and now it works?" Mary Kuhner mkku...@enzyme.berkeley.edu -or- mkku...@ocf.berkeley.edu Take your pick--no guarentees on either one.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!van-bc!ucbvax!agate!codon1.berkeley.edu!mkkuhner From: mkku...@codon1.berkeley.edu (Mary K. Kuhner;335 Mulford) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: static discharges - the Murphy's Law Kid Message-ID: <1990Feb1.083750.23657@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 1 Feb 90 08:37:50 GMT References: <1990Jan10.040655.324@cs.rochester.edu> <1660@adobe.UUCP> <130725@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4585@rtech.rtech.com> Sender: use...@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: mkkuhner@codon1.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Mary K. Kuhner) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Posted: Thu Feb 1 09:37:50 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit