Re: First hand true story (Re: "cookie")

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From: ves... Steve Vestal
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 18:29

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>In article <44...@bu-cs.BU.EDU> a...@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson) writes:
>   It seems he was fooling around in the backplane and somehow had managed to
>   jumper the logic to the 100V ac.  The smoke leaked out of everything.  It

I've seen this happen.  Nice description, especially about the lines lifting
off the boards, but you forgot to mention the sensation of dozens of tiny
flashbulbs going off at once.  With MSI/LSI technology, this has a tendency to
cause the silicon inside the packages to explode, which leaves a nice little
crater in the tops of plastic DIPs.

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From: ves...@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Steve Vestal)
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Subject: Re: First hand true story (Re: "cookie")
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