[20522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carpet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Thu Oct 15 20:04:32 1998
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:38:45 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:52:51 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
> I'm looking for carpeting for the area outside of a machine room that
> won't cause the "shuffle your feet and shock yourself" phenomenon. I
> noticed most datacenters I've seen are carpeted up to the entrance without
> any ESD problems. Is there special "anti-ESD" carpet? Where might I find
> it?
Yes. Searching AltaVista for "anti-static carpet" (without the quotes)
will produce results of which the following is in the first ten matches:
http://accessfloor.com/top/carpet/default.html
I once recommended anti-static carpet for a machine room, and I was
very happy with the way it turned out. I might be able to dig up the
name of the supplier if you contact me off-line.
Stephen
