What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a computer?

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed May 26 14:45:59 2004

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From: "Torquil MacCorkle, III" <torquil_at_chemist.com>
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Subject: Re: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a
computer?


> One computer I had a few months ago had "Give this back to Joe next
tuesday"
> written on one of the SCSI cables inside. A MicroVAX 3100 M10 I got a
while
> back was shipped 'clean', but the guy apparently washed the outside of the
> case only, it was the dirtiest computer I've ever seen. You could not
tell
> what was in it, it had literally half an inch of dust on every inch of it.
> You could make out an RZ25, but in the bottom you couldn't even tell the
> memory boards were in there. Not really weird I guess.
>
> But I am sure everyone has heard the story (legend?) of the computer that
> got sent back to the manufacturer for repairs and they found the end of
some
> guys finger inside. He'd apparently tried to install something, then the
> monitor fell sideways on the case or something... the part that doesn't
add
> up is why wouldn't he get his finger out? Normally when one gets their
> finger cut off it isn't such a non-issue that they don't bother spending
30
> seconds to recover it for a possible re-attachment. Probably a myth.
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Torquil MacCorkle, III
> Lexington, Virginia
>
>

They can only attach something that was cut off cleanly I believe, having a
small part of your finger crushed by the blunt metal case of a computer
would not qualify. Still if it was my finger I would have looked for it,
would make a cool keychain.
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