Re: How do you store card

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In article <887293418-960806111900@rook.wa.com>, brian.hammack@rook.wa.com
(Brian Hammack) writes:

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>>GE(|  slowly I'm accumulating a number of cards, and am wondering how
>>   | others store their extras.
>
>
>Not completely understanding the phrasing, assuming you mean "I have a
>bunch of cards; how do you keep them?"
>
>I have two cardboard boxes in my closet -- one for software and docs,
>the other for hardware and peripherals.  In the HW box I have a few
>small boxes with padding inside, and in them I put cards of the same
>type (aux slot, printer, etc) with one of those thin foam things between
>the cards.  Some I have in plastic or antistat bags. ....
>
>

     This is pretty much what everyone with lots of cards does. At first,
each card is a jewel with its own anti-static bag and/or cunductive foam
box. Later, you end up just tossing them into a big cardboard box.

     As long as the environment is not loaded with ways to pick up a
static charge-- like a nylon carpet in a low-humidity room-- there is no
big danger of zapping a board when normal handling rules are followed. (If
a room is static-prone, then an anti-static bag will not protect a board
from careless handling once it is removed. It is important to have some
way to leak-off static before touching the board.)
   



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