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From: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: ...and more problems.
Message-ID: <2021@gondor.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 23:14:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 23:14:27 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 00:45:40 EST
Reply-To: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ.
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I flew from Pittsburgh, PA to Richmond, VA because of a printer
problem once.  It seems that there was crosstalk between the print
pins - several of them would fire when only one or two was supposed
to.

By the time I arrived, the problem had gone away.  This was not a
good sign - intermittent bugs can be a pain-in-the-output-device.
Well, I had been working on the thing for about half an hour when I
decided to take a closer look at some odd looking "flux" on the
logic board.  I moistened it a little and sure enough, it smelled
just like a cancer research lab.  (Think about little white mice.)
After closer examination, I found mouse tracks all over the insides.
Now, until it dries (which it had by then) a salty liquid is an
excellent conductor of electricity...

Our service contract covers acts of God.  It was questionable whether
it also covered acts of all His little creatures.

I had a wonderful time writing "Recommend customer install cat" on
the service report.


I once heard about a Xerox tech who opened up a malfunctioning copier
and found a dead mouse lying on it's back, spread eagled, right smack
dab in the middle of it.
						---Duck