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.kni...@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 <tomjm...@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 <n...@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 <n...@nf6x.net <javascript:;>> >> > http://www.nf6x.net/ >> > >> > >> -- Ben Sinclair b...@bensinclair.com
