Re: SSD TBW

On 8/23/2026 9:05 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.
As a kid, we used to use coke to clean the rust off our bicycles.
Imagine what it was doing to our *teeth*!

[Apparently, kids, nowadays, have their teeth "sealed" and don't
experience the sort of "repairs" of ages past.]

Regarding water...

I volunteer at a place that recycles various types of kit
(electronic, medical, etc.).  One of the guys brings batches of
keyboards home and cleans them in his swimming pool (!).

I've rescued kit that has been left outdoors (at that facility)
during rainstorms and have been surprised as to how much of it still works.
Conceptually, rain water should be pure -- but, in reality, it
picks up lots of crap as it passes through the atmosphere, changing
its "content" and pH.