Dirtiest PC ever?
Monday, May 5th, 2008 - 4:30pm
http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/never-cleaned-the-pc.html
I can't believe this thing actually ran, much less didn't catch on fire!
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Wait a second! How did they get pictures of my old PC!?!
I should put those pics as a wallpaper to remind me to keep my new rig nice and shiny.
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Duoae wrote:
Pharacon wrote:
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I was expecting worse.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I've seen so much worse, unfortunately I've had to clean much worse during my PC repair days.
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I've seen worse.
Take a machine that is never cleaned, and leave it in a heavy smoker's house for years (some of those look on the right track). Stinky yellow funk connecting all the components. Yes, I said connecting.
I get a little nauseous just remembering them. Yes, I said them, plural.
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*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
BAH! Those are nothing! When I was at one of my first on-site jobs, I had to install a NIC in a computer that spent 2.5 years in a wood shop. I'm not kidding, there was at least 2 inches of sawdust piled into the bottom of the case. Amazingly, all the fans still worked (though one was noisy) and the guy claimed he never once had a problem with the PC. Needless to say, I told him to go somewhere to have the card installed. I wasn't going to get married to that PC.
Those are definitely some gross systems though.
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Oh, you're a dirty, dirty computer. *smack* You like that, don't you? You like it when I smack your parallel port, don't you?
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Parallel port? So you like the mature ones do you?
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Oh man, I've been down that road. At my (now sadly ex) workplace we used to get a lot of systems in for modem installs. I always winced when it was from a customer with a deep, smoke-inhalation damaged voice dropping off a box. I would often have to hook those up (the computers, not the customers) in a back room and work on them there, as I would get nauseous with those systems running in the main room. We did get one or two with dead roaches in the bottom of the case.
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Sadly, I can say that I've seen worse - though I've never figured out how the heat sink's actually work with all that dust and grime accumulated on them.
I can say that I have found an ant's nest built inside a computer near the power supply for heat. Thought that was pretty impressive - shame I didn't take a photo!
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I prefer the terms "classic" or "timeless." Besides, they are cheaper, ya know. Oh yeah, I like to depreciate those assets. I'll depreciate those assets ALL. NIGHT. LONG.
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I've seen MUCH MUCH worse. I am the system admin for a tire factory. When I first started here I cracked open the file server. It had 6 inches of carbon black(black rubber dust)/regular dust/god knows what in it. This was an old PC with no fan on the heat sink so it still ran, but it took me 2 hours to clean all the crap out of it. Damn I wish now I had take pictures to share. I also had several cases out in the factory that were nearly as bad. We've since moved the new servers into a room with its own vent system so we don't have that problem anymore for the servers at least.
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That brings back memories. Mixing in particular. You could not go into mixing without coming out with black streaks on your clothes. I don't care how careful you were trying to be. I don't think I ever got used to the smell that hit as you crossed from the office side of the campus to the factory side.
*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
That is not a subculture Lu, it is simply someone expressing his/her love for a computer. And that is a beautiful thing.
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Duoae wrote:
Pharacon wrote:
PSN = AmazingZoidberg
Oh its worse here... the office and factory are attached and share a vent system. My office... its on the END of the vent system so I get EVERYTHING in my office. Worst day of my life is when they clean the vents and it all poors into my office overnight because they forgot to warn me (for the 7th year in a row!) I've burnt out the rubber smell reception in my nose though so its all good. And yeah first day I wore cream colored dockers (after day one they were black and shredded).... from day two on (over 7 years) I've worn jeans every day!
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If it helps (and I know it doesn't), my office shared a wall with a testing wheel (my office was in tire testing). The first time one blew on a speed test was the closest I've ever come to peeing myself as an adult.
*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
finger --> parallel port
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I really don't want to see what a 25-pin finger looks like...
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I once had to fix a computer that had its monitor pissed on by a cat.
When I got there, and asked what happened to it they said, "I don't know. Ever since the cat pissed on it, it hasn't been working right....."
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Thats pretty nasty. I could only imagine how many times the guy who took that picture sneezed.
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Duoae wrote:
Pharacon wrote:
PSN = AmazingZoidberg