[NCLUG] Whistling computer

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Michael Dwyer:
> 
> Ob Sticktion Story: At the community college lab in my home town,
> they had a whole bunch of the old all-in-one Macintoshes -- SE, SE30,
> Plus, etc.  One of them had a HDD that failed.  Instead of replacing
> it, the tech opened up the case, opened up the hard drive, turned the
> machine on, spun the platters manually to get it started, then 
> carefully replaced all the covers.
> "There.  Now don't turn this machine off ever again."
> Hey, it worked!

 It was fun to do this with old Sun's - just pick up the whole thing and
*whack*. Gotta love the looks you got from doing that too. :-)

 The interesting thing is that even though sticktion isn't really a problem
anymore, the habit of leaving workstations on 24/7/365 has persisted -
which is a good thing. Especially for monitors - we have more monitors go
bad because they get turned off than any other problem. On the few
occassions that we've had to do a building power-down (city working on
power, generator in-line hookup, stuff like that) we've lost between 1
and 4 monitors (out of about 175 on desktops). Always at least one. I
think we've just about gotten rid of all the really old ones that way by
now. :-)

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   Mike Loseke    | One of life's best joys is putting the little 
 mike at verinet.com | rubber feet on a new piece of networking gear.