Conductive Dust Bunnies

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <1989Jun14.042949.597 at ivucsb.sba.ca.us>, todd at ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
< I was putting in some more memory into my UNIXPC, when all of a
< sudden, it refused to boot.  Thinking I may have bent one of the
< Eurocard connector pins, I opened it up.  What I found was a few
< gnarly dust bunnies smashed inside the connector.  There was no
< metal in the area that I could see.  After doing a thorough vacuuming
< job, I got the machine to boot.
< 
< Are dust bunnies electrically conductive in ANY way?

I'd have bet on them being insulating:  the dust got between a pin and a
contact finger, holding them apart.
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