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Slight · 09-02-2002, 10:44 AM

It seems odd to me that you would write "First actual case of bug being found" in your logbook. They must have been very cognizant of the term.

I have an interesting story regarding computer bugs. My mom had a PowerBook 180 back in the day and I would play games and write papers on it late at nite in my bed and then set it on the floor. This was back in the day of floppies. Well I woke up one morning, stuck in a floppy for some reason and I heard this crunch sound. The drive ceased to function. I don't remember if I pulled out the disk right away but I knew I had done something wrong and attempted to disassemble the powerbook. I did not have any torx drivers so after ruining some screws I bought a driver and opened the case. Inside the case there was all this bug goo. I cleaned up all I could see, put it back together and it worked, amazingly. I am not sure if this beats the time I fed our Mac IIcx orange juice thru the floppy drive but it is up there. Moral of the story? CLEAN YOUR ROOM!

09-02-2002, 10:44 AM	#6
Slight Semi-Evil Genius Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Boulder CO Posts: 195	It seems odd to me that you would write "First actual case of bug being found" in your logbook. They must have been very cognizant of the term. I have an interesting story regarding computer bugs. My mom had a PowerBook 180 back in the day and I would play games and write papers on it late at nite in my bed and then set it on the floor. This was back in the day of floppies. Well I woke up one morning, stuck in a floppy for some reason and I heard this crunch sound. The drive ceased to function. I don't remember if I pulled out the disk right away but I knew I had done something wrong and attempted to disassemble the powerbook. I did not have any torx drivers so after ruining some screws I bought a driver and opened the case. Inside the case there was all this bug goo. I cleaned up all I could see, put it back together and it worked, amazingly. I am not sure if this beats the time I fed our Mac IIcx orange juice thru the floppy drive but it is up there. Moral of the story? CLEAN YOUR ROOM!