[SLL] Laptop getting a bit warm

[Robert Woodcock]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:40:46AM -0700, Glenn Stone wrote:
> This will give some folks the willies but I've found that a magnetic #2
> Phillips saves a *LOT* of grief... 

FWIW, I've never toasted a computer part with a permanent magnet of any sort
before. Although I was a little concerned when I took apart a computer for
the first time - the unshielded PC speaker was mounted right up against the
hard drive. And it did take me a while to degauss a monitor (which had no
builtin degaussing coil) once.

Floppy disks, maybe, but you can make those unreadable by staring at them
the wrong way.

For fun: find two hard disk magnets that are still attached to each other
(so there's a slot between them where the hard drive seek head would
normally go), find an old floppy disk with a metal shield, take some
scissors and cut a piece of the shield to fit the slot, and drop it through.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw at blarg.net
"By metaphorically, I mean get in the car."
	-- Bender