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..but here's what happens when you own a Dell but not a vacuum cleaner:

Dust puppy on Dell access panel

According to Pete MacDonald, that's the front access to a USB panel, not that you'd know it.

This too was once a computer, Stateside reader Ian Keyes believes:

Dust encrusted PC front panel

Fellow American J C Edmond, who owns a computer repair shop, provides evidence of why one of his customers' kit kept overheating:

PC completely clogged with dust

Cloud based data management

oh GOD, the smell!!!

This is all very interesting, and I've seen many at least equal, but it doesn't really convey the awfulness of opening a computer that has sat inches away from a heavy smoker for many years, the nauseating, nostril clogging stench. It also doesn't convey the disgust at the texture, its not just dust, its sticky, cloying, revolting. After having one of those in the workshop the stench lingers for days. What you need is smellovision and feelovision.

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Re: Smoking and PCs

Many years ago when I was starting my PC support habit I had to fix an old PS/2 (the IBM type, not the Sony one) that had been on the desk of a heavy smoker. I took one look inside and refused to touch it - several inches of brownish tacky sludge covering everything inside the case. Even back in the early 90's it was agreed by all that this was a health hazard..

He ended up having a new PS/2. And smoking at the desks got banned shortly afterwards with the company setting up a cancer cabin for the addicts to go and smoke in.

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That last pc...

....was used for web-surfing...

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