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From: wwp@homxb.ATT.COM (W.PATTERSON)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: White powder
Message-ID: <2967@homxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 18:24:02 GMT
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Organization: AT&T BL Holmdel NJ USA
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The following story is true.  The names have been changed to protect
the innocent.

A computer repairman was one day called to a grade school to repair their
no longer working computer.  When he opened up the processor, he found
a thick coating of white dust covering every component within, i.e.
backplane, mother board and all other PC boards, housing walls, etc.
He had never seen any coating like this in any other computer.  The repair
of the processor involved simply blowing out the dust.

A few days later he was on another service call within the school for another
computer.  Walking by the room that contained the unit he had previously
fixed he decided to peek into the room to see how it was doing.  What he
saw explained the white dust.  He saw several boys beating the chalk
board erasers next to the fan in the unit, and watching the unit suck
the dust inside.