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Originally Posted by NatCh
Interesting bit of trivia: You know the old, manually operated telephone switchboards? The ones with all the plugs and patch cable? They had a flat surface on top, with lots of ventilation slots cut in the panel to allow the heat from the vacuum tubes to escape easily.
What do you suppose the primary cause of failures in those devices was?
Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup.
The operators would set their soup mugs on that flat surface, and inevitably it would get spilled sooner or later.
Just a bit of useless trivia that I always found interesting. Carry on.  |
Hahah, teach them to hire humans to run the switchboard... er, guess this was before the computing age evolved. Actually and interesting bit of trivia, I'm usually quite careful around PC's and such with drinks; quite a while back I spilled a soda on a regular keyboard and it just stopped working (strange because I figured it would have only made the keys a little less responsive and not totally kill it), after that I've been a lot more aware of where and how I handle my drinks around PC's.
You didn't happen to have a Campbells soup incident did you?
