12 Dec
2004
12 Dec
'04
8:39 a.m.
On Sunday 12 December 2004 13:10, Joe R. wrote:
At 12:39 PM 12/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
inside and out. Not even any stickers on it. It turns out that it had
spent it's life inside a lab hooked to a gas chromatograph or some such
were NO contamination could be tolerated. It was real shame to bring it
home and stuff it into the outbuilding with all the other computers.
Anybody else run into situations like this?
I had a machine that came out of the office at a McDonald's restaurant and
the dust bunnies that were inside were so greasy that it took sereral
passes through the dishwasher to get it clean.
The hard drive still smells of fries.
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