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From: paul@dual.UUCP (Baker)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: are ion generators bad for machinery and other living things?
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 12:07:59 EDT
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While working at North Star a few years ago, a colleague brought in a
negative ion generator.  After this had been on for about half an hour,
his terminal, a Soroc, would behave erratically.  This was tried several
times, always with the same results.

> A bunch of the non-smokers in our corridor have just received a
> shipment of Bionaire smoke filters.  These machines contain both air
> filters and ion generators.  I've read (perhaps in this newsgroup) that
> ion generators don't have any hazardous effects on humans (and in fact
> may make people feel better), but I seem to recall that they can cause
> plants to wilt and make certain types of plastics disintegrate in time
> (hopefully not as fast as the virus in The Andromeda Strain...).
> Anyway, would it be wise to move expensive machinery like Sun
> workstations, 3B2's, and plants out of our offices?

Paul Wilcox-Baker