ANST - Puters
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Fri Jan 23 08:51:19 PST 1998
For computer maintenance: turn everything off and unplug it to
make sure. There's the risk of frying the computer, and there's
the risk of frying *you*.
Better would be to wear a grounding strap, available at some
electronics places. This is not to protect against current
flow. (Indeed, I imagine it would be bad if you touch a live
wire with your right hand and have grounded your left wrist --
current will flow across your chest more easily.) It is
to prevent static charge from building up. A tiny shock
can destroy a chip.
Sorry for the digression.
Tim McDaniel (Daniel de Lincolia thinks a computer is a man
good with figures who works at the Court of the Exchequer)
--
Tim McDaniel. Reply to tmcd at crl.com; if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com
is work account. tmcd at tmcd.austin.tx.us ... is wrong tool. Never use this.
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