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Article #359Re: First hand true story (Re: "cookie")
From: a... Al Thompson
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:31
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:31
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In article <50518@srcsip.UUCP> ves...@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Steve Vestal) writes: >>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. Ah, but I didn't actually see it. I came into the room a few minutes after the fact.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!bu-cs!art From: a...@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Al Thompson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: First hand true story (Re: "cookie") Message-ID: <44670@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 14 Dec 89 19:31:17 GMT References: <21732@usc.edu> <1288@kuling.UUCP> <44484@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <50518@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: a...@cs.bu.edu (Al Thompson) Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Distribution: alt Organization: Boston University Lines: 14 Posted: Thu Dec 14 20:31:17 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit