Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!jarthur!wilkins
From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory Questions
Message-ID: <3231@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 24 Nov 89 21:06:08 GMT
References: <cZMlnuG00WB404Z0cv@andrew.cmu.edu> <4129@phri.UUCP> <3122@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <5671@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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I wrote:

>>touch the power supply's metal case with your working hand and hold onto it
>>with the other hand while you work.

In article <5671@umd5.umd.edu> jg13@umd5.umd.edu (Allon Stern) writes:

>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.

   Sorry, forgot to mention that.  With all static sensitive circuitry it is
necessary to leave the machine off but plugged into a grounded outlet.

-- Mark Wilkins
   wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu