I'll never forget the time I opened up a 386 PC that was on location
at a used car lot in Marina, California.  The case was so full of
dust that you couldn't even see the motherboard.  

I didn't know that Sun boxes got this bad, but I suppose it makes sense
as long as exhaust cooling is used.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Geoff Blake wrote:

> 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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