Smoking around computers

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Dec 10 23:18:59 2001

Hmmmm ... CANNIBUS??? Is there an IEEE standard for that one?

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: Smoking around computers


> I had a machine from one of the ITT Tech schools the same way - cannibus
> keyboard. I think that the pot smoke is actually worse than even the
> heaviest of non-filter cigs smoke - the residues from a pot smoker's PC
> really are funky when they've sat in storage for a while but I have noticed
> that machines with either residue (pot or cigs) don't tend to have mice live
> in them when sotred - I tried this by putting a bag of tobacco (cloth bag)
> inside and purposely left a filler plate off - no mice. The machine without
> had all sorts of acorn shells, poop, nesting materials, etc though.
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
> -> (XenoSoft)
> -> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:27 AM
> -> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> Subject: Re: Smoking around computers
> ->
> ->
> -> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> -> > Bear in mind that I'm a FORMER smoker, and that there's no
> -> Catholic like a
> -> > convert, as they say ...
> -> > I've disassembled a number of CDROM drives that clearly suffered from
> ->
> -> D'ya mean that retractable ashtray holder?
> ->
> ->
> -> I once encountered a TRS-80 whose keyboard wasn't working due to a
> -> chronic accumulation of marijuana seeds that had fallen in.
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