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From: mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin)
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Subject: Vacuum Cleaner
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Date: 12 Dec 89 22:25:22 GMT
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	Just thought I would pass a word of warning on to all you
floptical users out there. Last week an optical disk here got totally
trashed. This disk has been sitting in the cube for about two months.
After pulling the thing out, I noticed that there was a major layer
of dust on the thing. It seems that the drive slot sucks in dirt from
all over the room, and deposits it on the optical surface. I'm not talking
about a few particles here, I mean a LAYER. Anyway, we're backed up,
so it wasn't a great loss. It didn't come back after a freon spray,
but after the freon treatment I was able to reformat it at least.
	As with any media, the only insurance is redundancy. I'm wondering
about taping a little plastic cover over the drive slot....



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+  Mike Macgirvin              Relativity Gyroscope Experiment (GP-B)    +
+  mike@relgyro.stanford.edu   (36.64.0.50)                              +
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