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Newsgroups: alt.my.head.hurts

Subject: At last !    A restful use for computers

From: Guy Dunphy

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:57:18 GMT





                Hone your computer skills (not!)





Any of you who enjoy the pleasure of carefully honing a fine blade

to a razor edge will know that these moments of quiet and gentle

gliding of steel over stone can provide a wonderfull, calming

pause in an otherwise hectic and overcomplicated world.

There is a zen to this, not to mention the money saved on new knife

blades.



Trouble is, really good fine grained sharpening stones are becoming

something of a rarity in this disposable age. Quite the opposite of

computer hardware, which is rapidly approaching the 'landfill' grade

of oversupply.



So how are these two seemingly unconnected facts related?

Well, do you have a dead 386, 486 or pentium chip, the DX variety that

comes in a flat slab of ceramic? If you do (or are considering rejoining

the ranks of the uncomputerised) then you have an *excellent* quality

fine sharpening stone. And you didn't know it, did you?



Thats right! Try it! The flat top of these chip carriers is a smooth,

even grain sized, surface of the finest alumina. Very, very hard (it

will scratch glass), and easily cleared of metal dust with a wipe of

oil. You can get the best edge you've ever seen on a knife.



Just pop the chip out of your motherboard, cut off all those pesky

little legs, and there you are - a real Dhrystone.

If this is not a poetic end for an Intel processor, I don't know what is.





   Guy Dunphy                                       Sydney, Australia



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