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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Dust explosions -- a non sequitur
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 18:51:44 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 18:51:44 1986
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    More interesting than dust explosions are chad explosions... that's
right!  My high-school CS teacher once ran a teletype with a papertape
punch for about four days straight, and the chad built up in the machine,
causing what amounted to a grain-elevator-style explosion.
    I have known people who have had the same thing happen with card 
punches.   Probably the thickness of the card chad prevents it from being
quite as bad though.
   So what does this tell us?  Don't ever leave the teletype running over 
a long weekend.
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