Feeding the Floppy Drive

[Blade_Raver]

I had a guy hand me his computer saying that the OS crashed and wasn't working right.

It was an old Pentium 133-166 mhz machine.. 32 mb of RAM.. ran Win 98.

I was about to put the boot floppy in the drive and realized that the disk wouldn't go all the way into the drive. Hrmm... curious..

I take the PC casing off, unscrew the FDD from the case, take it apart.. What's in there? A neat little kid sized candy cane in it's cellophane wrapping.

Removed it, put FDD back together, Screwed the FDD back into the case, put casing back on.. FDD worked..

After I finished the job and returned it to the guy and gave him the treat.. He said that he has a kid that must have done it.

Ahh well.. I thought it was cute. At least the FDD didn't get damaged.. and the guy had a working machine again.

Score one for the good guys..

Blade_Raver

[earl colby pottinger]

Found in floppy drive.

1) Cash, little kid slipping change into daddy's computer. Warranty repair, customer get more money walking out from when they walked in.

2) Credit Card, happen to two different customers. Both had wondered where that card had gone and reported stolen.

3) Backwards 3.5 floppy, two 3.5 floppies - multiple times - how do these customers force them in without breaking them?

Found elsewhere, ham sandwich in a VCR, diary in back computer slot, mouse inside power supply (head between the two AC input junctions), lizard inside computer, did not find pet spider inside another (don't know if they ever found it), massive amount of cat hair because it like the warmth and vibration of the printer, and a stereo that when open looked like a solid block until we realized that was dust that had filled the entire case to the top. And yes it worked fine after cleaning.

[crazylegs]

stereo that when open looked like a solid block until we realized that was dust that had filled the entire case to the top. And yes it worked fine after cleaning.

Razor (electric) rotary type. SO much hair in the blade parts they had seized, causing internal gears to shear off. Say hello to your new paperweight.

[BravoOrig]

Our son who's almost 3 had gotten ahold of my wife's debit card and somehow managed to slide it under the tv. If I had not just had happened to look at the bottom corner of the tv which sits in an entertainment center, we'd still be guessing where it went to. Unfortunately our bank was already in process to send a new card to us.

[Cyphr]

my favorite story is from a computer meuseum. At the gift shop (Why do every where have a gift shop with useless crap) they sold choclate floopy discs. little kid sees daddy use floopies to save his work. little kid immitates...

FUN FACT: PC's get fairly warm inside...

**sigh**