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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Airplanes gain weight
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Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 22:12:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 22:12:25 1984
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> I'm not sure whether I believe 2Klbs or not, but perhaps someone could expound
> on the weight of the various crap that comes out of those scummy weeds.  How
> about when IBM/360 disks would consistently crash when exposed to cigarette
> smoke particles?

That's not a function of the weight of the smoke, but of the fact that,
relative to the distance between the heads and the surface, a smoke particle
looks like a hefty-sized boulder.  Those days aren't gone; people *still*
shouldn't smoke in computer rooms because the smoke particles can *still*
screw your disk.  (They shouldn't smoke in a lot of other places, too, because
they can screw your lungs - and your day, if you're sufficiently sensitive.)

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy