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On Sun, 29 May 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 29/05/11 12:45, Gordon Henderson wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/ventblockers_2/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/ventblockers_2/Modern PCs are typically too small to get really messy. I seem to remember a certain Michael Lawrie allegedly had rats in one of his Prime Computers, I always presumed this to be unintentional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lawrie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer
I had a mouse in a PC once... As in a real live, living thing. Except it wasn't alive - it had decided to have a fight with the case fan - and lost.
The PC was a router/server - part of the Wi-Fi broadband project I've wittered on about.. This was in a barn in the middle of no-where (near lands-end) and one day it just stopped. When we got to it, it was a bit messy - mouse droppings and urine had rendered the motherboard completely dead.
I'm not sure how it actually got in & out - although there were plenty of ventilation holes in the case, but I didn't think they were large enough...
As for primes.. Ugh. Used them at uny. Horrible things and a stupidly controlling computer services department who looked after them too. Grossly underpowered for what we were trying to do and I think the comp. services were completely out of their depth with these new fangled microcomputers on the horizon (actually over it, this was 1980 and I had an Apple ][) We had manual coding forms and teletypes for uny work, I had fast, interactive stuff for home/fun use...
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