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- From: manuel@space.ualberta.ca (John Manuel)
- Subject: Re: Cleaning Macs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.213949.16605@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:39:49 GMT
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- Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com writes:
- > Vaccum cleaners generate lots of static electricity.... computers and
- > static don't mix very well. I believe that 3M makes a vaccum cleaner that
- > is designed for cleaning computers. I think it cost somewhere around $250.
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- Exactly how does the static charge on the vacuum cleaner cause a problem?
- Wouldn't it be easy just to ground the metal part of the vacuum cleaner hose
- so as to remove the potentially damaging charge?
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- John R. Manuel Department of Physics, University of Alberta
- manuel@space.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA, T6G 2J1
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