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From: rfrench@athena.mit.edu (Robert S. French)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: minor Siggraph question
Summary: don't need magnets
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Date: 18 Jul 89 23:05:05 GMT
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In article <60881@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>Everyone attending siggraph this year make sure to take along a nice
>strong magnet. Wipe out the mag strip on the badge. Share the magnet with
>your friends. The other option is to be treated like a commodity.
>
>--rick

Actually, the way the badges were designed at the Atlanta conference,
the magnetic stripe was right next to the little metal thing that you
stick to your shirt.  After a few hours of walking around, many
people's stripes got holes rubbed in them from the metal contact,
making them unusable.  This may be one of the reasons that people's
badges failed so frequently.

			Rob