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From: aaron@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (aaron.michael.chesir)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: negative ion generator and computer
Summary: they have one SIGNIFICANT inconvenience...
Message-ID: <6886@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 14:02:10 GMT
References: <6840@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <6840@tank.uchicago.edu>, mendrala@paideia.uchicago.edu (Thomas M. Mendrala) writes:
> 
> I just got a Bionaire fresh air machine.  It includes a switchable
> negative ion generator. I live in a small dorm room and have a pc. 
> My question is: 1. What if any effect will the negative ion generator
> have on the pc? Could it damage it? 2.  Has anyone had any experiences
> with negative ion generators?

Hi There, Fellow Netters!

I live in the upper floor of a garden apartment development and had
downstairs neighbors who smoked as though the very act were about to become
illegal. Since the fumes seeped into the stairwell and occaisionally into my
apartment, I bought an air ionizer which I placed at the foot of my front door.
While it did clean up the air a bit, the removed dirt seemed to have been 
deposited onto my walls. Literally, my living wall nearest the ionizer
turned from white to brown! Apparently, this is a malady common to all air
ionizers (sometimes called negative ion generators). I don't know how it
will affect your computer, but definitely place the ionizer near a WASHABLE
wall.

Aaron Michael Chesir
1-(201)-949-1530
..att!twitch!aaron