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Re: Dust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Fri Oct 30 18:33:32 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:44:35 -0500
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Heh, the horror!
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Ihnat <ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Dust
>Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
>> It's called "fabric softener". A capful in a quart of water suffices....
>
>I was at BTL in the very early '80s. We had a space crunch, and had to
>use a pair of carpeted offices joined into a lab where we were building
>the Field Test Set--Unix 3.0 (effectively System III) on a portable
>8086. Well, portable in that it fit under an airline seat and booted
>from floppy, although it *did* weigh about 45 lbs.
>
>ANYWAY, the components were much more sensitive to static then, so some
>bright guy thought of spraying Cling Free(Tm, I'm sure) everywhere and
>on everyone. It worked--but *Gak.* I _still_, almost 20 years later,
>gag at the scent of Cling-Free...12 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week...
>
>Be careful what softener you use.
>--
> Dave Ihnat
> ignatz@homebru.dminet.com
> 312/315.1075 [home office]
>
>
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