Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Termites in Computer Message-ID: <1990Jun4.151629.29901@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 4 Jun 90 15:16:29 GMT References: <1990Jun4.115735.16273@csusac.csus.edu> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Distribution: na Organization: Columbia University Lines: 34 In article greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) writes: >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 As I remember it, Termites, as well as ants and several other insects, are attracted by magnetic fields. Perhaps if the machine isn't well insulated you get problems. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else