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From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A Happy Solution
Keywords: supra modem monitor static electricity
Message-ID: <5898@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 29 Jan 89 09:27:23 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I have just discovered something mildly useful.  My 1080 monitor has always
attracted mounds of dust, because of static electricity.  And every time I
touch the case of my Supra Modem 2400, I get a static shock.  Well, I finally
decided to do something about the two problems, and so I am now using the
Supra case in place of a static grounding pad.  It works extremely well, and
if I touch a finger of one hand to my modem and a finger of the other to
my screen, the screen discharges, solving my dust problem and assuring
that I won't pick up a fresh batch of electrons the next time I touch my
screen, resulting in a nasty shock when I turn off my modem.  While this
may sound like trivial idiocy to most of you, I think the whole situation
has a sort of lunatic rationality to it.  Also, I recommend the Supra
Modem 2400 highly, although I only dial out with it, and I will agree that
it has the worst on-off switch I've ever seen on anything.

                                        -Dan