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

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed May 26 21:11:17 2004

At 01:48 AM 5/27/04 +0100, Pete wrote:
>On May 26, 13:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> We had an elderly applicant for a teaching position who tried to use
>one
>> of the machines in the lab. When he couldn't find the CD drive, he
>put
>> a CD into the 5.25" floppy drive. The college administration morons
>> actually hired him for one semester! (I mention that he was elderly
>only
>> to discount the possibility that he was too young to be familiar with
>> 5.25")
>
>At the other end of the age scale... My pal Fran wondered where a few
>of his CDs had gone to, until he opened his PC to change a card, and
>found a stack of them. His four-year old son had sometimes "missed"
>the CD-ROM drive slot, and inserted the CDs in the gap between the
>CD-ROM and the floppy.
>

  LOL! You wouldn't believe how many Fisher-Price people (~2" tall plastic
or wood toy figures) that I pulled out of my VCRs when my kids were little.
The dammed tape slots were just the right size to admit them.

   Joe
Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 21:11:17 BST

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