Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!greg From: greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Termites in Computer Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 90 14:31:42 GMT References: <1990Jun4.115735.16273@csusac.csus.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Center for Innov. Comp. Appl., Bloomington, IN Lines: 22 In <1990Jun4.115735.16273@csusac.csus.edu> maltasr@csusac (Robert Maltas) writes: >Just thought I'd mention something interesting: >The other day at work, I opened up an IBM Model 60 to clean it out and >found the inside of the machine laced with dead termites. The termites seemed >to have an appetite for the styrofoam padding inside the case. Good thing >that Commodore didn't use any of that foam padding! >-- > /// >\\\/// UUCP : {ucdavis|lll-crg}!csusac!maltasr > \XX/ Internet: maltasr@csusac.csus.edu It could be the vibrations. In our old machine room at the Institute for Social Research, our PDP-11 and it's peripherals used to attract the termites like mad. Occasionally the floor would be swimming with them. There has to be something about computers that they like to get them out of that delicious rotting wood for which that building was famous. -- Gregory R. Travis Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405 greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu Center for Innovative Computer Applications