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In <3A09E092.7E94FF4A@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>,
Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Tony Houghton wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe you could fit a chassis fan at the bottom/front and filter that.
> > Strangely, my PCs don't collect much dust considering how backward we
> > are with the housework here.
> 
> This seems to be a desktop/tower issue too. We have a few of each, and
> most of my desktops have had problems with fans clogging up and floppies
> and CDs getting too dirty to work. I once took the lid off a desktop and
> had to take the components outside to brush them down because there was
> so much muck in there. No such problems with towers. We are challenged
> in the housework department too (I plan to hire a cleaner once I get the
> place clean enough for anyone to accept the job:) Another problem with
> desktops is the user smoking - I am guilty of this. With a desktop you
> tend to blow smoke into it; a tower is usually out of range. I have
> taken to putting desktop units on the floor. I would turn them on their
> side if it wasn't for the disk drives which aren't actually screwed in:)

I've got a desktop as well as a tower, and the former doesn't seem to
get dusty either. It isn't as old as the tower, but I have an Acorn Risc
PC (desktop case) which is >5 years old and that's OK too.

It's probably the smoking that's your problem. Before the Risc PC I had
an Archimedes, and I used to smoke then (giving up was a major factor in
financing the Risc PC :)), and I do recollect it always being much
dirtier than the machines I've had since. Tobacco smoke is quite sticky.

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