a275@mindlink.UUCP (Travers Naran) (06/04/90)
> 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. :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Travers "T'aran" Naran (I am male) Simon Fraser University, Computing Science Whovian, Prober, Treker, Quantum Leaper.... Mailing addresses: Usenet Travers_Naran@mindlink.UUCP or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Travers_Naran ------------------------------------------------------------------
a808@mindlink.UUCP (David R. Matthews) (06/04/90)
Well, that's one way to get bugs.
maltasr@csusac (Robert Maltas) (06/04/90)
Just thought I'd mention something interesting:
The other day at work, I opened up an IBM Model 60 to clean it out and
found the inside of the machine laced with dead termites. The termites seemed
to have an appetite for the styrofoam padding inside the case. Good thing
that Commodore didn't use any of that foam padding!
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\XX/ Internet: maltasr@csusac.csus.edugreg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) (06/04/90)
In <1990Jun4.115735.16273@csusac.csus.edu> maltasr@csusac (Robert Maltas) writes: >Just thought I'd mention something interesting: >The other day at work, I opened up an IBM Model 60 to clean it out and >found the inside of the machine laced with dead termites. The termites seemed >to have an appetite for the styrofoam padding inside the case. Good thing >that Commodore didn't use any of that foam padding! >-- > /// >\\\/// UUCP : {ucdavis|lll-crg}!csusac!maltasr > \XX/ Internet: maltasr@csusac.csus.edu 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
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (06/04/90)
In article <greg.644509902@cica> greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) writes: >In <1990Jun4.115735.16273@csusac.csus.edu> maltasr@csusac (Robert Maltas) writes: > >>Just thought I'd mention something interesting: > >>The other day at work, I opened up an IBM Model 60 to clean it out and >>found the inside of the machine laced with dead termites. The termites seemed >>to have an appetite for the styrofoam padding inside the case. Good thing >>that Commodore didn't use any of that foam padding! >>-- >> /// >>\\\/// UUCP : {ucdavis|lll-crg}!csusac!maltasr >> \XX/ Internet: maltasr@csusac.csus.edu > >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 As I remember it, Termites, as well as ants and several other insects, are attracted by magnetic fields. Perhaps if the machine isn't well insulated you get problems. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else