Roaches aren't bad if you know they are there, as are spiders, dependant on
the type and where you are in the world (I don't think I'd like some of the
ones in Oz or Africa). My biggest problem is rat and mouse crap, especially
since the hantavirus problems in New Mexico some years ago and their urine
totally eats through copper traces on circuit boards.
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of
-> UberTechnoid_at_home.com
-> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:27 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Wierd Things you've found inside... (was Smoking around
-> computers)
->
->
-> I once found a chunky roach jamming an injet's paper handler. Yes, the
-> smokeable kind of roach.
->
-> I've seen equipment literally choked with little roaches. They eat the
-> insulation on wireing. Really gross to open a monitor that is crawling
-> with bugs. I'm not one of those who can comfortably hold a roach or
-> spider in thier hand.
->
-> Or some of the pleasant surprises such as buying (not another!)
-> ATR8000 to
-> discover later that it had a Copower 88 and 256k of ram onboard.
-> Or buying
-> (not another!) 1050 disk drive to discover later it has a Super Archiver
-> with Bitwriter installed. Or buying a Rana 1000 disk drive to discover
-> that it Actually Works!
->
-> A couple of years ago while working at my bench I hear a whoop from the
-> sales floor and in rushes 'Bubba' Mac - another tech. I follow
-> him to the
-> bench behind the counter and see a desktop machine, i'ts skins
-> laying next
-> to it. Inside, near the power supply was a beautiful, full-grown,
-> colorful, desicated butterfly.
->
-> The machine hadn't been opened in the five years it had been owned.
->
->
-> Any other spiritual (or just plain interesting) stuff found inside a
-> computer?
->
->
-> In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112101650490.14350-100000_at_siconic.com>, on 12/10/01
-> at 04:52 PM, Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> said:
->
-> >On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
->
-> >> > > I once encountered a TRS-80 whose keyboard wasn't working due to a
-> >> > > chronic accumulation of marijuana seeds that had fallen in.
-> >> >
-> >> > I understand they're high in protein. Maybe this person
-> ate them over
-> >> > their keyboard like others eat snacks? :)
-> >>
-> >> If they weren't eating snacks before they ate the marijuana
-> seeds, they
-> >> certainly were afterwards. :-P
->
-> >Sounds like this comes from someone who knows?
->
-> >:)
->
-> >Just busting your chops. There's nothing wrong with smoking something
-> >that Mother Nature put on Earth. Shame on those that think otherwise.
->
-> >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
-> >Festival
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