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From: jg13@umd5.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory Questions
Summary: Installing SIMMS
Message-ID: <5671@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 89 18:17:43 GMT
References: <cZMlnuG00WB404Z0cv@andrew.cmu.edu> <4129@phri.UUCP> <3122@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: jg13@umd5.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <3122@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>touch the power supply's metal case with your working hand and hold onto it
>with the other hand while you work.

(this to prevent zapping the motherboard/simms with static)

My question is, does the computer have to be plugged in to do this?  It seems
that in order to get a ground it would have to be.