On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Teo Zenios wrote: Cats like classic computers, and our Feline Overlords "encourage" us to get them the hardware they desire. Zane

On 01/10/2010 4:08 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: We all know they realy are in it for the mice ...

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:52 PM Subject: Re: Another 935 shot... Something would have to be every rare and worth money for me to bother cleaning mouse poop out of anything.

On 3 Oct 2010 at 18:52, Philip Pemberton wrote: i.e. Lye = aerosol oven cleaner. Much easier to use than the "Red Devil" pelletized product available in US grocery stores. Just keep it away from aluminum, zinc and magnesium. I've also used the stuff to remove greasy smoke damage. You guys haven't lived until you've used your torch to disassemble a tuba with a dead rat stuck inside. The fragrance is "unique"... --Chuck

On 10/3/10 4:11 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: That's...disturbing. I'm having a hard time coming up with a more unusual set of circumstances, or course of action to deal with said circumstances. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

One of my previous cats had a liking for anythign HP. He would routinely sleep on HP manuals and ignore, say, DEC ones :-). The cat who currently chooses to live with me (a stray ginger and white cat who I've given a simple 4-letter name to [1]) hasn't shown any particular manufacturer bias yet. But he's deficed that PERQs are there to be climbed on :-). [1] It's a common 4-letter word. You can deduce it as follows : He's a (partly) amher cat. Think of the ancient Greek word for 'Amber', then think of the obvious connection with that, and then realise that he's somewhat heavy. -tony

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote: You need to buy extra mice and keyboards for your cats. They seem to prefer the IBM model M.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: Exactly! You can either engage in a futile losing struggle to try to keep them off of your keyboard, or you can give them their own keyboards. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com

Buy a second keyboard and a 2-way switch. Use whichever keyboard that cat is not sleeping on (and be warned, it will not be consistent, hence the 2-way switch so you can select either keyboard). -tony

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:39:32PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote: Beats me. I have seven dogs, no cats. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.