Years ago, when I was a teenager, I worked in a gas station, and to show you how long ago this was, we actually put the gas in the customers' cars for them! They never even had to get out of the car! And while the car was being gassed up, we also checked the engine oil, the tire pressure, anything else we were asked to, and of course we always cleaned the windshields (I know this sounds fantastic to the current generation, who will accuse me of lying, but honest, you really did get service like that, at ALL gas stations up through about the late 1970s, when civilization declined into self-serve everything).
It was while washing the windshields that I became acquainted with the ugliness of cigarette smoke residue. I don't know how many drivers who smoked asked me if I could please try to get some of that cloudy gumbo off the inside of their windshield, so they could see through it a little better. They would get out of the car, I would get in with my spray bottle of cleaner and rag, and I'd spray and rub and spray and rub trying to get that sticky, awful goo off the glass. And mostly all I accomplished was to smear it around. We never found anything that could really get it off. If anything confirmed my decision never to smoke, that was it. Knowing that the inside of a smoker's lungs was coated with that same filthy goo, even worse than the windshields, drove home the health hazards of tobacco, as if the stinking clothes of the driver and the smelly upholstery of his car weren't enough. Trying to get that crud out of the inside of a computer, where fans have sucked it in and deposited it all over, must be a real chore, if it's really possible at all (how can you scrub or even wipe off all those tiny electronic components). It sounds like all the disassembly and monkeying around with the computer's parts might be as detrimental to its workings as the smoke residue. I would never knowingly buy the computer of a smoker. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
