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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: ianxblog on Fri, 14 February 2014, 21:18:23
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There are a few keyboards with fans to cool your hands when gaming (Thermaltake)
Why there isn't a keyboard with a detachable/slide-in*out ashtray.
It would kickass for office use.
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ROFL.
Hahaha.
Well, on a more serious note, smoking near a keyboard really ****s it up in the long run among other things.
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Smoke screws up a lot more than just a keyboard. I had to replace the CPU fan on my mother-in-laws personal computer. She smokes in her house probably a pack to 2 packs a day. The fan was so gummed up with tar and what not that it just wouldn't spin. The amount of fuzz and dust was actually pretty minimal.
I had to do the same thing with computer from the office at private club that my mom worked at for a bit. This was before the IA Clean Air act that banned smoking in all public buildings. After those to I will not do hardware swaps for people that smoke consistently in the same building/room as said computer. After fixing the second one from the club it took 3 days to get the smell out of my house.
This is on top of the fact that I smoke but never in my house. Yes I go outside to smoke at my own residence even when it is -40°F without windchill.
In retrospect I don't think it would be a good idea. Just because you can, does that mean you should?
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The SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) computer, belonging to the US Air force, built to analyse radar signals, had a built in ashtray and lighter.
It was in use 1954-63. So if you smoke, you're living in the wrong decade.
(My gf bought me a coffee table book called core memory, full of fantastic photos of computers from the 40's upto 1984, and tacked on some photos of google's first server.)
PS - moved your post - ;)
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They really don't make things like they used to.