3 Aug
2015
3 Aug
'15
3:55 p.m.
Man that is foul ... I too started in the business doing repair, at a local
shop, and we definitely saw some dirty ones, but never like that! The
grossest stuff was always out in the field particularly some of the
industrial customers.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ben Sinclair <ben at bensinclair.com> wrote:
This one isn't so pleasant... I worked at CompUSA
fixing computers in
the 90's, and one time an employee brought in his personal machine for
repair. Fortunately I wasn't the one that opened it up, as when the
tech popped the case, cockroaches scurried everywhere! The machine was
beyond hope with the amount of "insect debris" inside.
I believe we had an exterminator out the next day!
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com>
wrote:
When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff
penny's inside the floppy
drives of my dads rainbow 100 the drives survived this I slot and are
still
I. Working order as far as I know since last time
I saw that beast
On Sunday, August 2, 2015, Tom Moss <tomjmoss at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I once found a whole box worth of crayola crayons in a 1541 disk drive.
>
> What amazes me is how nothing was blocked and they hadn't melted.
>
> On 2 August 2015 at 05:53, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net
<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > By the way: I still keep the dollar with the computer. Just in case
it's
> a
> > critical component, you know. :)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net <javascript:;>>
> > http://www.nf6x.net/
> >
> >
>
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