Re: SSD TBW

Lane W  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Fed up with a girl I was working on, I basically told her to fuck off, 
>something I had never quite said to her before. She gave a short quip 
>chiding me, and later I returned from an errand at AT&T to find standing 
>water on my keyboard.
>
>There were three categorical alerts raised, one of which was a hard 
>drive fail.
>
>The good news is that, even though I'd heard of such, everything came 
>back to normal, but it surprised me because the timeline was much longer 
>than I'd expected.

She should have used coca-cola.  I worked years ago at a hospital where
someone had spilled cola into an HP2626 terminal and left it over the
weekend.  There were large sections of the board where the traces were
completely dissolved.
--scott
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