Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help!  There's this little copper...
Message-ID: <4467@ames.arpa>
Date: 6 Feb 88 00:42:40 GMT
References: <2000@cadnetix.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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["I was arrested yesterday for Speed reading. . .]

In article <2000@cadnetix.UUCP> childs@cadnetix.UUCP (David Childs) writes:
>Help!  I was booting up my Amiga this morning (1000), and just when I was
>about to put in my Workbench floppy I noticed this little piece of copper
                                                                    ^^^^^^
Gee, Isn't that the COPPER chip?? Those sneaky little guys, always trying
get out when the have half a chance. That's why I always keep a disk in
DF0:. Before I did that I caught my blitter halfway across the room heading
for the pantry one morning (I think he was after the Rice Krispies).

>that was wedged, albeit loosly, in the metal slider floppy access way.
>This little widget is about one cm square and a mm high.  It looks like
>a little box with no top or bottom. 
>  _____
>Thanks
>
>David Childs  Cadnetix Corp.  (303) 444-8075 childs@cadnetix.UUCP
>

That's just one of those little things that the RKM doesn't tell you about.
(You'd want to wonder around too if you were cooped up in a stuffly styrene
box all you're life, eh?)

Another is that the pixels need cleaning every 6 months or so. A soft
toothbrush and a diluted mix of vineger and baking soda works pretty well.
Although "PixelWipe" made by CleanTronics Inc. or "point-clean" from
APC Enterprises are good products. There are ads for them in the latest
issue of OverByte magazine.



-- 
				   *** mike (Mr. Bug) smithwick ***
"the only thing wrong with reality, it that it takes too much time"
[discalimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]