Insects

[patchell]

Harry Bissell wrote:

> AVOID the temptation to try to fix the bugs the "old fashioned" way.
> This involves carefully cracking the little window open (just a crack
> don't
> let them get out or they will crawl into all your M****soft stuff...)
> and then
> spray them with DDT.  Its really hard to get the right pesticides
> today... so its
> better to let "sleeping bugs lie".

    Is this the DDT that used to come with CP/M 2.2?  If it is, that
presents a problem.  My last copy is on an 8 inch floppy.  I figure I might
be able to read it if I wash the disk and run it through the dryer.
Hopefully it will shrink down to at least 5 1/4.

>
>
> You can also expose them to UV light but if you overexpose then the
> PROM is toast. Don't go there !!!
>

    I tried that once, but the bugs just got a suntan.

>
> H^) <silly mode off>
>

    -Jim

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