dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) (01/29/89)
I have just discovered something mildly useful. My 1080 monitor has always
attracted mounds of dust, because of static electricity. And every time I
touch the case of my Supra Modem 2400, I get a static shock. Well, I finally
decided to do something about the two problems, and so I am now using the
Supra case in place of a static grounding pad. It works extremely well, and
if I touch a finger of one hand to my modem and a finger of the other to
my screen, the screen discharges, solving my dust problem and assuring
that I won't pick up a fresh batch of electrons the next time I touch my
screen, resulting in a nasty shock when I turn off my modem. While this
may sound like trivial idiocy to most of you, I think the whole situation
has a sort of lunatic rationality to it. Also, I recommend the Supra
Modem 2400 highly, although I only dial out with it, and I will agree that
it has the worst on-off switch I've ever seen on anything.
-Dan