"He wasn't happy with doing just one PC, he 'cleaned' them all," Wilson wrote. "It was great fun watching him try cleaning all the steel grinding dust and dirt off the loose parts after picking them up from the floor, using the fab table and a rag soaked in acetone." None of the five computers the engineer cleaned survived the process, necessitating replacements."
""It's at 90 PSI and is 80 percent air, 15 percent water, and 5 percent oil," Wilson said. "When he hit the boxes with this mess, he blew memory chips and any other loose bits completely out of the motherboards.""
"The company let the idiotic engineer go a couple of months later for deleting AutoCAD from his computer to make room on its hard drive for a game."
In the early 1980s, AutoCAD was being adopted and five PCs sat on a steel plate work platform in a welding shop attached to an engineering consultancy. A new structural engineer opened the machines while high-amperage welding occurred nearby and used compressed shop air to blow out dust. The compressed air contained water and oil at high PSI and blew memory chips and loose parts out of motherboards. Attempts to clean scattered parts with a rag soaked in acetone on the fab table further ruined components. None of the five computers survived and work-in-progress files were lost; the engineer was later fired after deleting AutoCAD to install a game.
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