[plug] Fluid damage to Laptop

[Jonathan Young]

On 9/16/2006, "Bernd Felsche" <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:

>Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> writes:
>>On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:49 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
>
>>> I would be very wary of capillary action - which might have taken
>>> the wine (in liquid from) into confined spaces where it could be
>>> held there by the capillary action (and then be difficult to
>>> "see" and remove) - then with time and heat the wine could either
>>> evaporate of crystallise - crystals tend to expand as then grow -
>>> so if they are in between two vulnerable components - it is
>>> anybody's what the outcome might be.
>
>>Ah yes... as I remember there was a 80's movie about a computer
>>that had wine spilt over its keyboard.
>
>Not many people own a "Pinecone".
>
>Movie was "Electric Dreams". The soundtrack's pop songs were more
>popular than the movie.
>
>>The PC became self-aware and then later fell in love with its owners
>>neighbour at which point it self-destructed.
>
>No it didn't. It invaded computer networks, notably that of teller
>machines.

As far as I recall, it did fall in love.  Not sure if it was a
neighbour... could have been.  The music was probably more memorable as
you say.

Also, I think it was champagne, not red wine IIRC.

In any case, the Toshiba that began this post is 'alive and kicking',
has posted and later this weekend will get a thorough test run.

I will post to the list if it exhibits any new "personality traits".


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