[techtalk] Smoking kills!

Eric Richard Turner turnere at cc.wwu.edu
Tue Dec 12 15:45:17 EST 2000


Check out the keyboard at http://www.inspace.com/flexi.html... I think
that one should be dishwasher (and smoker) safe! ;-)

Cheers,
Eric R. Turner

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Davida Schiff wrote:

> Rumor has it (thousands of years ago) HP put all their "used" keyboards in
> the dishwasher to clean them,  and then sent them out as replacements to
> their customers when their keyboards failed, as warranty replacements.
> 
> Davida
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie [mailto:jockgrrl at ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: Chris Lewis; LinuxChix Techtalk
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Smoking kills!
> 
> 
> From: Chris Lewis <linuxguy at mindspring.com>
> > <un-lurk>
> > I've never had an experience like this as a result of smokers, but we do
> > have a car dealership client who's server sits very near the repair shop.
> > Anytime you have to crack the case on it, the inside looks like they used
> it
> > to drain the oil out of an old VW Rabbit.  This has caused serious
> problems
> > with their tape backup functioning properly.  The oil, grease, brake dust,
> > and other assorted crud in the air from the shop has gummed up the drive
> and
> > caused it to cease functioning.  I would imagine that the tar in cigarette
> > smoke would have similar effects.  It's bad enough to crash the system,
> but
> > if you're backup isn't working when it goes down, you're really out of
> luck.
> >
> > </lurk>
> 
> Thousands of years ago I was a systems analyst for a small
> oil company.  The woman who was the systems administrator
> there used to put keyboards in the dishwasher (honest!) to
> clean out all of the coffee, sugar and cigarette ashes and whatnot.
> 
> Sometimes it worked.  Sometimes it didn't.  For the heaviest of
> the coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers it usually didn't ...
> 
> -- Julie.
> 
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