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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A possible source of drive problems
Message-ID: <2756@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 18:20:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2756
Posted: Sat Aug 15 18:20:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:02:25 EDT
References: <351@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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In article <351@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>
>With the rash of "my disk drive has quit working" reports I have read here
>recently, I thought it might be appropriate to issue a warning about
>something that can cause a lot of grief.
>
>DO NOT SMOKE NEAR YOUR COMPUTER. The smoke (which is small oily
>particles suspended in the air) will settle in the drives and foul the heads.
>
>It can be corrected with a head-cleaning kit, but it still isn't a good idea.

While not smoking IS a good idea, in general, I would say "take this with a
grain of salt".  I am a smoker, and my at-home computer room is not a smoke-
free area by any means, and I have never had a problem with any of the 
drives in any of my computers.  Not to say it can't happen, but I think the
probablility is low.  At work, on the other hand, I don't smoke around the
computers or the non-smokers.  None of them have failed, either.



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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"