On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler wrote:

> Workstations tend to have beefier cooling systems that suck a lot more air
> (and dust) through the case, though.
> 
> My SGI Indigo2 could have been co-branded by Hoover with the amount of dust
> it sucks in. Ditto for my PowerMac 9600, though that's partly because I
> have it on the floor.
> 
> I've found that average PCs need anywhere from a dusting every two years,
> to yearly dustings, while my workstations demand at least one dusting every
> 6 months, the worst probably being my Indigo R3k, which will start to flake
> out after about 3 months from dust.
> 
> Perhaps the worst I've seen, though, was an HP NetServer E60, which after 6
> months of use managed to collect *large dustbunnies* in the bottom of the
> case. Worst buildup I saw was in a home PC that hadn't been dusted for
> maybe 3 or 4 years in a home with pets, the shrouded slot-1 PII heatsink
> was caked solid from plate to fintips in dust, and the powersupply wasn't
> much prettier.

My favourite was the old Sun 2, a 2/120 IIRC, which I had some years
ago. It had something like 6 off 5" Muffin fans - and that was in the
power supply alone! It sounded like a tube train when powering up!

Strangely, the machine was pristine inside, something to do with
having been operated in a class 100 clean area.

Geoff
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