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Bring out your dead: Reg readers reveal filthy, filthy PCs...
Computers' hellish interiors reveal further horrors
Posted in Hardware, 1st February 2013 09:03 GMT
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Ventblockers It's been over three years since El Reg readers rocked the IT world [1] to the very foundations on which it rests with chilling photographic evidence of the horrors which lurk within PCs worldwide.
Twelve months later, and the shockers just kept on coming, allowing a second spine-tingling round-up [2] of grotesque dust creatures, sinister incipient lifeforms and arachnid strongholds, not to mention the odd mummified frog:
Well, it's clear the situation hasn't improved. Try this old Dell machine which, according to a shaken Tim Massey, had been sitting on the floor for six years before he armed himself with a flamethrower and whipped off the cover:
Dan Martinelli's mate asked him to give his machine a "tune-up", but once the thing was opened up, this quickly became a "clean-up":
WACCo, meanwhile, down at a Stateside non-profit repair shop [3], got in a machine prone to "shutdown after Windows starts". Any idea why..?
Keyboards, too, are effective grunge magnets, as that belonging to a former colleague of Paul M shows:
Paul notes: "I would be ashamed to leave equipment in this state." Quite so, although Roy Dragseth unabashedly revealed what lay under the keyboard of his "beloved" ASUS S6F after five years' use:
Roy explains: "Now I know where all the hair that's missing from my head went..."
Well, it's time for a stiff brandy and no messing, after which those of you who've got horror stories of your own can send me the photos right here [4].
When we've achieved a critical mass of PC terror, and when our nerves can stand it, we'll compile the most alarming into another X-rated picture show. Over to you...®