moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (08/08/85)
In article <208@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes: >I'm a little perplexed by a leakage problem with my DT80/1-am. It's been >staining my desktop lately. I've had the terminal for three years (from >when the first -am model was introduced), and it just started leaking a few >weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but I'm concerned. >Any ideas? Depends on what's it's leaking. Water, Ammonia or Hydrogen Peroxide is not a great problem, and can probably be fixed with a washcloth or a bucket. Human blood, however, could indicate that one of your officemates is a mass murderer, and is storing spare body parts of victims in your terminal. Is that woman to the left of you looking at you strangely? Maybe she knows that you know! Hee Hee Hee.... Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) (08/13/85)
The following excerpts indicate some confusion concerning my recent posting- >In article <208@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes: >>I'm a little perplexed by a leakage problem with my DT80/1-am. It's been >>staining my desktop lately. I've had the terminal for three years (from >>when the first -am model was introduced), and it just started leaking a few >>weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but I'm concerned. >>Any ideas? > >Depends on what's it's leaking. Water, Ammonia or Hydrogen Peroxide is not >a great problem, and can probably be fixed with a washcloth or a bucket. >Human blood, however, could indicate that one of your officemates is a mass >murderer, and is storing spare body parts of victims in your terminal. Is >that woman to the left of you looking at you strangely? Maybe she knows >that you know! > What's this about Ammonia or Hydrogen Peroxide? The only fish habitats I've heard of are fresh water or marine. By the way, I've found a silicon based product from Dow-Corning which works great, called Vide-goo. -- Neal R. Vanderlipp ARPA: neal@maryland CSNet: neal@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!neal
harry@ucbarpa (08/14/85)
From: harry@ucbarpa (Harry I. Rubin) In article <208@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes: >I'm a little perplexed by a leakage problem with my DT80/1-am. It's been >staining my desktop lately. I've had the terminal for three years (from >when the first -am model was introduced), and it just started leaking a few >weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but I'm concerned. >Any ideas? Oh oh, you've got a data leak. You are trying to run too much data through the terminal and you are losing information: excess bits just ooze out the bottom or sides. This is a fairly serious problem in that this stuff will not only stain your desk badly, but eventually starts to smell very bad (old information can get pretty powerful)! Larger disks or faster terminal lines can sometimes alleviate a data leak to some extent, depending on what is causing it, but when all else fails there is an old ``home remedy.'' Get a tray with grooves to channel the runoff, the sort of thing you buy to put under your kitchen dishrack to catch the drips can often be made to serve, or you can fake it with aluminum foil. Place your leaky terminal on the tray so that the leaking information will flow off the back of your desk and drip into ... the bit bucket you have placed behind your desk. Not only will this save your desk, but you can never tell when having a bucket of spare information around will come in handy. As I mentioned though, data spoils fairly quickly and bad data smells awful, so you'll have to empty the bucket every few days. Hope this helps you out. Good luck.