IBM Portable Personal Computer (and other things)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jan 26 17:59:58 1998

At 05:44 PM 1/26/98 GMT, Phillip wrote:
>
>PS *** Off Topic ***
>
>Will Sam and Anthony please go and have their argument somewhere else?


    Here! Here!
>
>The first couple of posts about Anthony's personal testimony were
>interesting and related to computers. The subsequent argument about
>drugs and off-topic posts, not to mention mature adults of 17 and silly
>kids of 30 (I'm one of the latter FWIW) was not.
>
>Sam, you say Anthony has problems - but so do you. Will you stop
>jumping down everybody's throat as soon as the topic starts to drift,
>please?
>
>Finally, alcohol. Interesting points about Prohibition (which we didn't
>have over here). Thank you whoever posted them (even though off topic).
>Denatured alcohol here is still "Methylated Spirit" - i.e. it has had
>methanol added. It has also had pyridine (I think) added to make it
>look purple and taste foul, and it is therefore even more poisonous, but
>it doesn't leave a residue.

   They don't add that here in the US. But the US Navy uses alcohol for
servicing torpedos (it literally is torpedo fluid!) and it is purplish so
it may have pyridine added. The denatured alcohol here seems to be as
usuable as ethyl alcohol for everything except drinking. I've had no
problems using it to service electronics equipment.

   Joe
Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 17:59:58 GMT