Unusual stuff inside computers

Adrian Stoness tdk.knight at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 17:17:15 CDT 2015


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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