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

From: Rob O'Donnell <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu May 27 03:51:08 2004

At 19:52 26/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 13:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> I've seen that in 6 or 7 different machines, all from day-care and
> kindergarten facilities.

"Me too"

Also (more on topic) 5 1/4" floppies going the same way..

I remember (few years back) buying a new cd-rom drive from a local bucket
shop for a PC we were building. Plumbed it into the machine, powered up,
pressed Eject, and in the tray already was a genuine Windows 95 CD-Rom,
with serial number written on it in a pen (and the words "shop
copy"). Hmm... "New" ?


Most dangerous object I found: Doing a cabling job some years back in some
offices in Liverpool, stood on the top of a step-ladder, pushed up a tile
in the false-ceilings whereupon it tilted abruptly and a large, heavy,
hammer shot past my eyes and hit the floor with a loud thud..

That was a slightly more lucky escape than the time I was working elsewhere
on a Cat5 wall socket when the customer's MD decided to "help" me by
putting the ceiling tiles back. Unfortunately, they were large heavy
asbestos-type tiles, and the one he decided to put back was directly above
my head: It broke as he lifted it up. That cost me a trip to casualty and
two stitches..


Rob.
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