Is you computer breathing right!

[cgutzmer]

Gotta agree with Dave. For MOST people their home vac will have too much suction and canned air is a better low cost alternative. Canned air will not suck parts out of their sockets. The small electronic vacs are nice and ones designed for the purpose could be good but I would stick with the canned air. Just a personal preference.

Chris

[Mr. Hawley]

I am a big BIG fan of creating "positive pressure" in my computers. I'll put a nice larger fan or two on the side of the case with filters over the outside. The only "suction" is the fans drawing from outside and blowing into the case. The rest of the nooks and crannies of the case only have pressurized air blowing out so no dust gets in (just like a clean room).

One of the best filter materials I've found so far... Used dryer sheets. I might vac them once or twice but the supply is plentiful so I usually just loosen the frames I made and replace them.



This, of course, does not help laptops at all <grin>.

[cgutzmer]

Great! I bet it sounds like our storage array room at work

[B-Manic]

If discrete electronic components are made out of plastic; how did Silicon Valley get its name?

[airdave]

Originally Posted by B-Manic

If discrete electronic components are made out of plastic; how did Silicon Valley get its name?

nix nix nix...



......


I love that dryer sheet idea!!!
I have a terrible problem with fans pulling in crap, but never thought to filter the openings!
What a simple idea...see, I don't know everything.

[Zathros]

Originally Posted by B-Manic

If discrete electronic components are made out of plastic; how did Silicon Valley get its name?

You're kidding right, I mean, you know the word "plastics" covers quite a large field, right, I mean, you do know this. Also, the first "Plastic" processor has just been invented. This is just semantics, right. And, you said discrete electronic components, which covers far more than I.C.'s, so, just what are you saying?

What does nix, nix, nix mean? Is a Moderator being acrimonious? No, seriously, you really must be joking, right, "discrete electronic components" in a world without plastic, how would capacitors, cell phones, and, well, almost everything electronic be made?

[airdave]

Originally Posted by B-Manic

...how did Silicon Valley get its name?

I assume, gets its name from the uses of "silicon" which is:
a metalloid.
It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14.
A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon. Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass,

but very rarely occurs as the pure free element in nature.

It is more widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates.

In Earth's crust, silicon is the second most abundant element after
oxygen, making up 27.7% of the crust by mass.
Silicon has many industrial uses.

It is the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips.

Silicon is widely used in semiconductors because it remains a semiconductor

at higher temperatures than the semiconductor germanium

and because its native oxide is easily grown in a furnace

and forms a good semiconductor/dielectric interface.


I'm just sayin... B-Manic
Sometimes confused with silicone...which is the plastic component used to make Pamela Anderson.




and "nix nix nix" was my funny way of hinting to B-manic not to step in the mud puddle.
I'm sorry if it was misunderstood.
There was no underlying message.

[mchale]

silicone...which is the plastic component used to make Pamela Anderson. funny dave lol rofl

[Zathros]

Originally Posted by airdave

I assume, gets its name from the uses of "silicon" which is:
a metalloid.
It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14.
A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon. Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass,

but very rarely occurs as the pure free element in nature.

It is more widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates.

In Earth's crust, silicon is the second most abundant element after
oxygen, making up 27.7% of the crust by mass.
Silicon has many industrial uses.

It is the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips.

Silicon is widely used in semiconductors because it remains a semiconductor

at higher temperatures than the semiconductor germanium

and because its native oxide is easily grown in a furnace

and forms a good semiconductor/dielectric interface.


I'm just sayin... B-Manic
Sometimes confused with silicone...which is the plastic component used to make Pamela Anderson.




and "nix nix nix" was my funny way of hinting to B-manic not to step in the mud puddle.
I'm sorry if it was misunderstood.
There was no underlying message.

Is that what you think you are looking at when you look at an I.C.?

Here, find out for yourself. Unbelievable, and so very sad.

Semiconductor OneSource: Semiconductor Glossary -- Search For : plastic ics

[B-Manic]

So if you doped silicon with a semi conductor like gallium arsenide you would have integrated circuits or microchips. Where as if you inserted silicone in a dope you would have a exhibitionist spokes-chick.