So...much...dust

[Aethian]

LOOK! A Motherboard has been found...

LINK

[BookstoreEscapee]

It looks like a little city covered in volcanic ash.

[Andara Bledin]

What do you want to bet that the owner of that thing smoked?

A lot.

^-.-^

[lordlundar]

What do you want to bet that the owner of that thing smoked?

A lot.

You're on. There's no sign of tar in the rig, which turns the dust a sort of reddish brown. (makes it sticky as well)

The machine is either very old or was in a very dusty place. Most likely the former, considering I think the CPU is at the most powerful an AMD-K2 and the expansion slots are all ISA format.

And for even more nastiness (link is SFW, though you might wish it wasn't.)

[Green_Fairy]

that makes me want to sneeze just looking at it.

i used to test printers. duration, mostly. but there was a chamber called "the dust chamber" and it tested just that. to see how long the printers held up in dusty environments. they had a special dust they used...very expensive. weird stuff

[Andara Bledin]

You're on. There's no sign of tar in the rig, which turns the dust a sort of reddish brown. (makes it sticky as well)

Hm, the ex smoked like a chimney and the crap in our machines was never really reddish at all and not at all sticky, either.

Of course, not everything smoked there was tobacco... and there were pets...

We've only got the 2 cats, now, and no smokers, so we only have to worry about the frightfully fast build-up of cat hair in the grills.

^-.-^

[Cazzi]

Those poor computers

[mattm04]

I have no doubt some of the POS PC's at work look like that. They are under the bet portion of the register, enclosed in the metal box of the belt portion of the resister stand only accessible by unscrewing a access panel.