What's the Hardiest Hardware You've Seen?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 3, 2003 @10:42AM from the survivor:-hardware dept.

mrsev asks: "I work in a lab and so have lots of strange equipment around me. Recently I found an old 256Mb USB Flash Disk, that I had been looking for 6 months. This would not be amazing but for the fact that it was frozen in a block of ice in one of our -80C freezers (-112F). It must have fallen from my top pocket when I was reaching in. After chiping it out and a quick thaw and dry ... it worked!! All my data was intact and there were no problems. I am now looking for a victim to test in our liquid nitrogen storage facility. My question is what is the strangest hardware survival you have seen."

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Hardiest hardware by wowbagger · 2003-12-03 11:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

The winner and still champion

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iBook ran over by 250+ lb man on his bike by jasonbowen · 2003-12-04 01:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

I ran over my future wife's iBook on my bike. Long story short: I was coming to a stop and started swinging my backpack around and discovered the zipper was failing. As I watched my front wheel plow over the top of that white plastic case I knew for sure I'd be buying her a new computer. The only real evidence of the mishap was a scuffed up corner and the tire mark, which washed away before I returned it to her.