3.1130 laptops, x-rays, CD-ROM jukeboxes, keyboards (113)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Mon, 5 Mar 90 20:40:00 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1130. Monday, 5 Mar 1990.
(1) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 11:33 CST (10 lines)
From: Mary Massirer <MASSIRERM@BAYLOR.BITNET>
Subject: laptops, not flying
(2) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 10:34:55 CST (16 lines)
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: X-rays and magnets
(3) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 23:33:02 EST (12 lines)
From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert A Amsler)
Subject: X-rays and magnets
(4) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 15:47:57 EST (17 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: CD-ROM Jukeboxes
(5) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 90 01:09:16 CST (21 lines)
From: "Bill Ball" <C476721@UMCVMB>
Subject: keyboards
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 11:33 CST
From: Mary Massirer <MASSIRERM@BAYLOR.BITNET>
Subject: laptops, not flying
A graduate student friend of mine is interested in buying a laptop and
needs information about brands. She has a chance to buy a Bondwell but
knows nothing about it. She is also interested in Epson and Toshiba.
Compatibility is not a problem, but like most grad. students, she is
short of funds. Do any of you have any advice, especially about the
Bondwell? I will share your responses with her. Mary Massirer, Baylor
(MASSIRERM@BAYLOR)
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 10:34:55 CST
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: X-rays and magnets
I have it on good, but anonymous authority, that X-RAYS will not damage
mag disks, but that the machines can because they use magnetic fields to
generate the X-RAYS. When you create an electric field you wind up
generating a magnetic feild. If X-RAYS did destroy magnetic disks, you
could not keep them at high altitude where there are more natural
X-RAYS. Keeping physicists and mathematicians as friends does pay off
once in a while... :-)
Mark
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 23:33:02 EST
From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert A Amsler)
Subject: X-rays and magnets
One reason X-rays may have been associated with danger to magnetized
material is that there are typically very large magnets in most x-ray
equipment and bringing a magnetized material near such equipment
can be hazardous. I have been told that the safest route is often
THROUGH the scanner rather than being passed around the machine.
The absolutely worst possibility would be to place the magnetic
material directly on top of the scanner to avoid passing it through it.
The magnets are usually on top.
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 15:47:57 EST
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.1125 a fascination of queries (152)
CD-ROM jukeboxes.
Contact Raymond Neff at Case-Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, who has implemented (or is in the process
of implementing) a CD-ROM jukebox designed to allow access
over a network. The first thing the system does is allow
the user to download the search software from the particular
CD-ROM.
Unfortunately, I have no details, nor Dr. Neff's e-mail address.
Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 90 01:09:16 CST
From: "Bill Ball" <C476721@UMCVMB>
Subject: keyboards
Some comments with respect to the recent discussion on remapping keyboard keys:
There is software out there which will remap & otherwise change the
function of keys but there is also a hardware solution. Several
companies make replacement keyboards which have more keys than the
regular part--and more importantly allow the user to arbitrarily assign
functions to keys. In some cases this adds up to 150+ keys with the
ability to assign whole macro commands to each one. One major advantage
to going this route is that its all done in the keyboard--no possible
conflicts with your software. For what they do these keyboards seem
reasonably priced: $125 to $200. Unfortunately, I haven't saved up
enough pennies to actually acquire one but doing so seems clearly
superior to trying to make something work in software.
Bill Ball
Dept. Pol. Sci.
U. Mo. - Columbia
c476721@UMCVMB