objects n disk drives

[Cyphr]

So one of the tech support sites i read just introduced to the fun of 4 year olds and chocolate floppies. anyone else have any stories of objects in places they shouldnt go?

[Geek King]

So one of the tech support sites i read just introduced to the fun of 4 year olds and chocolate floppies. anyone else have any stories of objects in places they shouldnt go?

You mean in computers, right? I mean, there's this site with some really alarming x-rays...

[Cyphr]

yes in computers although could you give me that link i love using pictures to freak people out

[Geek King]

yes in computers although could you give me that link i love using pictures to freak people out

Here's some, warnings for some medical ookiness, and some may be NSFW as there are some surgery pics there too.

http://www.well.com/~cynsa/newbutt.html
http://www.ghorayeb.com/NoseForeignBody.html

Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread:

I've had to dig out the usual double floppies, as well as a doubled CD that got stuck in drive. I've seen a sock inside the case (don't ask, I don't know either). I did have someone try to install a Walkman-style CD player as a CD drive, but they called me before opening the case.

[Ringtail Z28]

I used to think the whole "broken cupholder" thing was a myth until I saw a coworker do it. The same coworker actually did it twice.

[freaktard]

When my sister's kids were toddlers, they once ruined her old computer by "playing post office" or something that involved pushing "letters" (ie, anything that would fit) into the "mail slots" (ie, the disk drives). I think she was just kind of looking the other way so she would have an excuse to get a new computer.

[Naaman]

We had to retrieve a couple of credit cards after SCs saw an Amex advert that featured a card being placed on a CD tray and 'spinning up'.

Not only did they believe the advertisement (FAIL) but they slotted it in the gap between the CD tray and the blanking plate (EPIC FAIL)

[xaenon]

Had a customer in my shop once, with a 'warranty claim' on a failed CD-ROM drive - one of
those 'trayless' jobs that you just stick the disk in the slot. Turns out his six-year-old had
indeed fed disks (note plural) to it - one right after the other, until there were THREE of them
in there.

[lordlundar]

Not only did they believe the advertisement (FAIL) but they slotted it in the gap between the CD tray and the blanking plate (EPIC FAIL)

Only in the double stupidity. At least nothing got damaged, right?

Right?

Oh good Gord...

[bigjimaz]

Not a computer but my oldest once put a piece of toast in the VCR because he saw me putting the tape in there and wanted to 'feed' it too. Fortunately, nothing happened. He was 3. At least it wasn't the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I read about some kid doing.

[technical.angel]

Does anyone remember who posted the story about the woman feeding her computer rice?

[Jules Of All Trades]

At least it wasn't the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I read about some kid doing.

When my oldest was 2 he 'fed' our VCR a peanut butter sandwich, minus the jelly...

Luckily I had a spare (sandwich and VCR).

[Hobgoblin]

In the lab here at the school, once a week we have someone put a regular 3.5 floppy into the zip drive.

While it is more understandable (I've almost done it), you would think that having all that extra space around the floppy while you are inserting it would make you think "hmm, that's unusual, should I really be doing this?"

[technical.angel]

I had a professor bring his laptop in. He said that during a presentation, in the dark, a student had put an SD card in SIDEWAYS in the built in card reader.

Prof said he didn't care about the card, but he needed the reader. So, I started to dismantle the laptop. Something in the middle just didn't want to come apart, so I was practically prying the thing up.

Then the DBA (database admin) came by, and he started digging around in it. That's when I was able to uncover enough of the card reader to find.... it was an enclosed piece, so opening the laptop was pointless.

Then the server admin came over. With a screwdriver and a pair of those long thick computer tweezers, he was able to extract the card, and I was (miraculously) able to get the laptop to not only get into onl solid piece again, but to TURN ON! WOOT!

[SnapAddict218]

Does anyone remember who posted the story about the woman feeding her computer rice?

What?? I have to hear this. Please, who posted?