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Date: Sun 12-Dec-1989 22:25:22 From: Unknown Subject: Vacuum Cleaner Just thought I would pass a word of warning on to all you floptical users out there. Last week an optical disk here got totally trashed. This disk has been sitting in the cube for about two months. After pulling the thing out, I noticed that there was a major layer of dust on the thing. It seems that the drive slot sucks in dirt from all over the room, and deposits it on the optical surface. I'm not talking about a few particles here, I mean a LAYER. Anyway, we're backed up, so it wasn't a great loss. It didn't come back after a freon spray, but after the freon treatment I was able to reformat it at least. As with any media, the only insurance is redundancy. I'm wondering about taping a little plastic cover over the drive slot.... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Mike Macgirvin Relativity Gyroscope Experiment (GP-B) + + mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (36.64.0.50) + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >From: jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
Date: Sun 13-Dec-1989 00:18:49 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Vacuum Cleaner In article <394@helens.Stanford.EDU>, mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin) writes: > After pulling the thing out, I noticed that there was a major layer > of dust on the thing. It seems that the drive slot sucks in dirt from > all over the room, and deposits it on the optical surface. I've heard that this is only a problem on earlier cubes; they reversed the fan direction in the later ones. -=EPS=- >From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Date: Sun 13-Dec-1989 06:53:31 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Vacuum Cleaner eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article <394@helens.Stanford.EDU>, mike@relgyro.stanford.edu > (Mike Macgirvin) writes: >> After pulling the thing out, I noticed that there was a major layer >> of dust on the thing. It seems that the drive slot sucks in dirt from >> all over the room, and deposits it on the optical surface. >I've heard that this is only a problem on earlier cubes; they >reversed the fan direction in the later ones. Well NeXT? How about telling us how to get upgraded. I have a serious dust problem that I think this would cure. Chris Whatley
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