Smoking around computers

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Mon Dec 10 09:40:35 2001

> > From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>
> > I wouldn't want anybody smoking near my computers!
>
> I've been chain-smoking around computers of various sorts for 20 years, and
> I've never seen any evidence of smoke-related problems. I prefer that
> computers don't smoke around me, however ;>)
>
> OTOH, audio gear seems to be very susceptible to my smoke, and I have to
> clean all the switches and pots every three months or so.

The early CDC disk drives (like many others I'm sure) has so
much room between platters you could stick your hand in there,
and enough room between the flying heads and the platter that
neither smoke nor dust was a problem. One CDC engineer remarked
to me about how they usually be smoking a cigarette while they
were *polishing* the platters (yes, I know about the stiction
cure joke, Lemon Pledge and all that). Which reminds me of an
MPEG that Elsa included with the Winner3000 drivers... you
watch this video, you'll think it's cigarettes that they're
selling...

-dq
Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 09:40:35 GMT