Reply to post: Re: Plinths

Techie finds himself telling caller there is no safe depth of water for operating computers

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Plinths

"After a couple of episodes, their solution was just to raise everything up by six inches, above the water level, until The Powers That Be could come up with a permanent solution.."

If the floor is carpeted, then that's a good dust prevention measure too. The air intakes are usually at the bottom of the PC, the rubber feet designed to lift the case above the surface tend to sink into carpet and every time someone walks by or the user shuffles their feet, dust is raised from the carpet and sucked into the PC. 6" seems to be the magic number for a quite dramatic reduction in the amount of dust sucked into a PC.

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