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From: "Torquil MacCorkle, III" <torquil(a)chemist.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:38 PM
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.
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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.