Love the picture of the guy leaning on the disk drive.
Back in the Pentagon, we had one peculiar problem happening in the WWMCCS (Honeywell) mainframe. Around 03-0400 or so every night, several of the disk drives would start reporting errors. These disk drives were all adjacent to each other.
As the appointed system manager, I was asked to figure out what was going wrong. Eventually it came down to me staying overnight to see if I could catch the issue.
I did! It seems as soon as the nightly backups were completed, one of the operators would go in the back to take a nap.
Yup, this guy climbed up on the disk drives to sleep because they were warm!
Analysis complete, I issued a warning to not sleep on the equipment, especially the equipment with moving parts.
Hey, for fixing a computer problem, that was a relatively easy diagnosis and solution!
Lol! Great story. Did you evict all the cats, too?
Our local hardware store has been in business over 40 years. When they first opened, they had a huge computer monitor for the point of sale system. They had the prettiest, most mellow store cat who slept on the monitor all the time. You could always pet him when you were checking out and he just lapped up all the customer attention.
Those warm monitors (and hard drives) are all long gone.
Imagine all the cat hair inside that monitor! I’m surprised it didn’t overheat and go BOOM!