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From: a275@mindlink.UUCP (Travers Naran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Termites in Computer
Message-ID: <1998@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 90 17:22:37 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> 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

Actually, I remember hearing that rats were doing the same thing, being
attracted to the computer's wiring (I think it was Japan). Anyways, it turned
out that the computer's wiring was emitting a sound that attracted the little
buggers so it is not surprising about termites. :-)
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