Conductive Dust Bunnies

Blair P. Houghton bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Sun Aug 13 12:34:36 AEST 1989


In article <224 at bongo.UUCP> julian at bongo.UUCP (julian macassey) writes:
>
>    The average office environment is filled with conductive dust. This dust 
>can be purchased at many stationary stores, to buy it just ask for 
>photocopier toner (laser printer toner works too). This dust is mostly 
>carbon, often with some paraffin wax.
>
>    Many office PBX's and computers have had "weird" problems when in the 
>same room with "The other machines", this usually means a monster 
>photocopier.

You just described a local copy center, which also contains the
building's central security computer, diskdrives and all...
I'm just waiting for the door alarms to start playing "How
Dry I Am."

				--Blair
				  "No, I'm not going to tell
				   you which one."



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