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What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burnin'-down-the-house dept.

Hal-kun writes "What happens when you put a Palm Pilot in the oven to dry with the warmth of the pilot light, only to have someone cook a Pizza while you were out? Take a look. Stick a fork in it, I think it's done."

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  1. Re:Fully intact? by iansmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are many rugged PDAs out there. Just look into companies that sell items for "Shop Floor Data Collection" and similar enviroments. They are designed to withstand greasy fingers, drops onto concrete, vibration and other abuse.

    Some shops have so much oil in the air, any paper left in the open becomes soaked completely in 12 hours. Not to mention open air warehouses that can get extremely hot or cold.

    However, nothing is going to protect against extreme heat. You can't keep a closed system cool, and thats what you have in an oven. At least, nothing that will last very long and can fit in your pocket.

  2. Deliberate cooking! by sdo1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is there anyone that actually thinks this was an accident? This "exec" cooked his Palm so he could get the "latest and greatest" as a replacement.

    I know a lot of people who have done the same thing. Your laptop seem a big sluggish? Drop it on the pavement "by accident"... and bingo... the IT department hands you a shiny new blazingly fast feature filled replacement.

    It doesn't take a genius to figure out what really happened.

    -S

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  3. and this made the front page of slashdot why? by night_flyer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lets leave a VHS tape in a hot car and see what happens.

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