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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.

I used to work at a computer store and we did this sort of stuff when
business was slow.  We would solder all of the pins on each side of
the chip together and then we would put 120VAC wall current through
it.  We would let a volcano of sparks fly from the chip before turning
the current off.  SPECTACULAR RESULTS.

If you're into small explosions, you can try the same thing with
resistors and capacitors.

We used a power strip with a switch, a built in circuit breaker, and a
long extension cord.


JOn.
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