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

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Thu May 27 09:35:57 2004

In the spirit of the thread:
Wierdest thing found in an item of electronics:
While trying to find a Kodak Retina possibly lost off the back
of the truck headed for the dump, I went to said dump and dug
around for a while. Vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes plus charcoal
fires plus time equals shriveled up raisinlike vacuum tubes. Wierd.

Stepping into a new spirit:
Wierdest design found in an item of electronics:
A 1950's programmable function keypad implemented by placing a
3x4 matrix of switches under Each key. To change the bit patterns
sent, a new bank of pins could be loaded under all the keys at once
by slipping in a new cardfull of spring loaded pins. The things they
had to do before EPROMS. Geesh.

John A.
Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 09:35:57 BST