Hah! A few years ago I had my hardware-geek son build my latest tower PC. It's pretty good - not water-cooled like the one he made for himself, but a nice big monitor and I finally gave him permission to load me up on RAM. But ...
Do normal commercial PCs have Faraday cage around them, or something? I can't use my old paper shredder any more, because when it fires up within the same room, the PC suddenly dies and has to be rebooted. A minor EMP, I take it. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. -R.M. Knight */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Leonard D Woren Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2023 02:12 Long ago I was told why my shop didn't carpet the tape storage area. Apparently some shop that did had a problem with unreadable tapes. Eventually they figured out that all the unreadable tapes were on the bottom row of the tape storage. And the outside cleaning people used a vacuum cleaner... --- Bob Bridges wrote on 11/8/2023 6:56 AM: > /* The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to > primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious. -Dr Who, 1978 */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
