Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:520 comp.sys.ibm.pc:11047 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!lll-lcc!lll-winken!csustan!polyslo!steve From: steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Public/student terminal/PC rooms Message-ID: <1077@polyslo.UUCP> Date: 23 Jan 88 02:08:00 GMT References: <2183@isis.UUCP> Reply-To: steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett) Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407 Lines: 25 In article <2183@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes: >Question for maintainers of public, e.g., student, terminals/pc access rooms: >How do you keep you equipment clean? Around here the group that maintains >the machines ignores the problem, citing that janitors can't be trusted to >do the job. > >Are keyboard covers common? What do you use as cleaning solutions? > We use an occasional weekend and some molecular cleaner (called FD I believe) and some student assistants. It doesn't take very long (a couple of hours) and it keeps the terminals in good enough shape (not perfect, but good enough). I wouldn't trust our janitors either (they once had a key to our machine room, and one of them wondered what the 'BREAK' key on our console did -- if you have a Pyramid 98xe with one processor, you know -- it freezes the machine). After that, we did our own vacuuming (why they ever did in the first place is beyond me, but I wasn't here when that started). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Steve DeJarnett | ...!ihnp4!csun!polyslo!steve | | Computer Systems Lab | ...!{csustan,csun,sdsu}!polyslo!steve | | Cal Poly State Univ. | ...!ucbvax!voder!polyslo!steve | | San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include