More dirty pictures at source
Posted on 05/16/2010 4:15:17 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Dirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide
Horror beyond human imagination
By Lester Haines • Get more from this author
Posted in Bootnotes, 13th November 2009 11:00 GMT
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Ventblockers Our shock picture last Friday of a Quatermass-style lifeform lurking inside a PC prompted a flurry of snaps forwarded by readers who had similarly confronted unspeakable horrors.
We gather that many of our correspondents are responding well to therapy, and could be back working in PC maintenance in five years or so. Others, sadly, are condemned to spend the rest of their days in a padded room gibbering about alien beings like that unfortunate bloke from Quatermass and the Pit who sees a hellish vision of Mars inhabited by Red Planet bouncing insect creatures.
Well, flamethowers at the ready. We're going in...
More dirty pictures at source
AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I’ve seen worse, much worse.
I’ve seen one to almost rival those. Many years ago I worked at a PC shop as a programmer/PC fixer/customer rep, and one of my sites was a ready-mix concrete plant. I’d had to install a multi-user system—one Compaq Deskpro 386/25 PC, two terminals (SCO Unix, baby)—in the office, which was occupied by two of the most godawfully stupid women I’ve ever met.
Anyway, several months later, they called and said the system had stopped working and could we please fix it? So our usual PC tech went out there and brought the Compaq back in. When he popped the case, we were appalled. 6+ months of being in a closed cinderblock office with two two-pack-a-day chainsmokers, combined with the air being saturated with cement dust, meant that the entire motherboard was BROWN. It looked about like your picture of that front panel. All the ICs were just lumps in a fuzzy brown stinking nicotine blanket. Their tape backup drive, which had had the same tape in it for the entire time (as they were too stupid to remember the instructions we gave them about backups), was jammed with brown dust and wrecked. We had to drag the thing outside and use high-pressure air to blow out the entire inside, and when we did, this gigantic cloud of smoker byproducts and rock dust went flying. It was hideous.
IIRC we had to replace the tape drive (which had quit working months earlier and they didn’t tell us about it), the motherboard, and the floppy drive as a precaution. By the grace of God the hard drive still worked and they hadn’t needed the tape backup.
}:-)4
Except for that rat pic...
My PCs don’t last long enough to get dirty.
Many years ago? Boy, I'll say.
Most office desks have more bacteria than the office toilet.
That’s bad. Three relatively clean vertical sides though. Shoot it with air out back. The dog didn’t get to it yet...
We had a laptop in Iraq get so dirty and crammed with dust that literally it caught fire and melted both the case and the table.
our server at work has been sitting the floor under a counter since 1999...
If you haven’t upgraded the memory since 1999, I doubt it is worth much
Nothing like that in my Domain.....ECKKKK!
Before and After....amazing...assuming it still works.
Just looking at that makes me sneeze. I routinely clean servers out as part of my job, this looks familiar.
it's not, but it's paid for... it's still running DOS and i don't even have a mouse. i had to swap out a junk floppy drive a couple months ago for a software update.
luckily i found one in an old machine that worked but... it scared the bejesus out of me not knowing if the server would ever start up again, let alone start and come up right after the swap.
i lucked out...
they won't get a new server till we change software and that isn't happening right away, or until it goes completely toes up
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