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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
 Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 06:54:09
I feel a little fortunate. My 7100/66av arrived on friday, and as I do, I pulled it down, cleaned it, polished the components (motherboard and all), and re-assembled everything, then started a bit of testing how it ran. I hadn't owned a 7100 before, so I left it going next to the iMac just to pop in and try the odd thing or two. This left it basically caseless, with a few cards going in & out through the night. Then... oops! I spilled coffee on my desk. Most of it went on the desk, but some in the iMac keyboard - that's not a drama as it's pretty well designed and it all either ran out or just sat between the keys, and I could clean it down in a few minutes. A little later I was thinking nothing of it, and went to bed. Today, I have to housesit at my mothers' place, so I took the 7100 here to test it with her monitor (a nice 1710) and scan the motherboard for the NuBus Mafia project. Partway through the scan cleaning I notice - there are coffee splashes on the motherboard! two great big ones on an area of the board with no tracks. I felt a bit lucky then Not long after, I came to checking the scan for the RAM chips and the text clarity there - ack! there's 3 more coffee drops on those also... but not on tracks! droplets had only landed on the top of the chips themselves. Checking the motherboard and tasting them - yup, sweet coffee. Those drops had landed on a powered-up motherboard, all just in the right place to be safe. Some days you're just lucky :) dana Edited by - danamania on 08 Mar 2003 06:56:15 |
Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 07:33:05
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Then... oops! I spilled coffee on my desk.
Lucky maniac! Don't paddle around so vigorously in your coffee while you're CPU diving!  jt  ™.
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 08:32:02
Just think of all the pleasant memories that will come back to you when you turn on that 7100 and get another faint whiff of coffee baking off its chips. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 15:18:25
A couple of weeks ago, I was using my Dell, and I accidently spilt my Coke can near the tower!  Of course, I acted quickly, and everything was ok.  Still, its great to hear you didnt lose your 7100! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 20:26:45
wow... it IS true... some days you ARE just lucky  some days I'm not lucky though  that includes the day that I borked the Quadra 840AV...... (I should probably have tried to get another PRAM Battery.... but I guess that I didnt) Official 68k videographer
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:03:01
Yikes i'm always really careful when i open my macs and never keep them onen for long, lucky -danny
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foetoid
Full Member
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 14:13:24
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Yikes i'm always really careful when i open my macs and never keep them onen for long, lucky
Wow... I had my 950 sitting open for months.... I had my 6400 in pieces for longer.... Doesn't really bother me that they're left naked, they have no shame, and they've never been raped by coffee, pop, accidental droppage or anything else... fourtunate? nah, just protective of them in their "natural" state... (did that make any kind of sense?) ________________
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 15:04:30
quote:
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Yikes i'm always really careful when i open my macs and never keep them onen for long, lucky
Wow... I had my 950 sitting open for months.... I had my 6400 in pieces for longer.... Doesn't really bother me that they're left naked, they have no shame, and they've never been raped by coffee, pop, accidental droppage or anything else... fourtunate? nah, just protective of them in their "natural" state...
I usually leave stuff sitting open too, I reassembled my Mac Portable today after having it sit out for a while, it didn't work! Typing this, I just remembered that the mobo fell off a pile of paperwork and onto the tile floor from a height of about 18" last week. I guess I might just have a self-borked Luggable on my hands for the PortableUpdateHack now!  I wish it weren't tho . . . jt ™.
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