Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jpr From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Pierre Radley") Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Message-ID: <6561@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 15:45:22 GMT References: <1216@auschs.UUCP> Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP ("Jean-Pierre Radley") Organization: The Big Electric Cat, NYC, NY Lines: 19 Organization: In article <1216@auschs.UUCP> sauer@auschs.UUCP (Charlie Sauer) writes: >............ But all of the I/O cards, memory cards and the processor >card had standing water on them! > >I wiped up the water as well as I could with paper towels, pulled all the >cards and let them stand vertically to drain, and waited an hour or so.... One a year or so, I pull the printed circuit boards from my CPU and my keyboard and run them through my dishwasher, using a minimal amount of detergent, and absolutely avoiding the machine's dry cycle. I just let the boards dry in the wind. Living in New York City, and being a smoker, I do find quite a bit of crud on the boards. -- Time is nature's way of Jean-Pierre Radley making sure that everything ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jpr doesn't happen all at once. CIS: 76120,1341