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Re: quickstation-50-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Apr 12 09:56:51 2009
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:56:21 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>, William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>,
"andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>, debathena@MIT.EDU
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Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 12 Apr 2009
at 06:45:37 -0400 in <200904121045.n3CAjbdo010702@oliver.mit.edu>:
> Note that the Lobby 16 quickstations are perhaps not a good choice
> because for the last I-can't-remember-how-long, I've always seen
> one of them stuck at the BIOS POST screen, and I've tried and failed
> to get it to be fixed and stay fixed. I keep meaning to report it
> to hotline and not remembering.
I believe the problem is they are in a location where dust gets swept
onto them regularly (from above the stairs), which causes the
keybord and mouse to fail physically, and also clogs the machine
filters with dust which causes the machines to overheat.
I've always assumed hotline was aware of that.
--jhawk
