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Article #4312Re: And you though computers were safe
From: r... bob nutter
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 14:23
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 14:23
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The monitors for Sirius PC's (a sort of MS-DOS machine, ugh!) were pretty nifty too. Every so often they'd release an extremely large bang and the spot on the screen would drift to the bottom. They were obviously getting so charged up they eventually just *had* to discharge. The best thing was you never knew when it was going to happen. Once I'd seen this I never touched the screen again... bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- bob nutter, computer officer | "A grey-haired old woman who has become UMIST dept of computation | mentally unstable" po box 88 manchester m60 1qd uk | - Iraqi statement on our glorious tel:+44 61 200 3386 | leader Thatcher. Spot on, I'd say! email:b...@umist.ac.uk |
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!mucs!cns!phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk!rn From: r...@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: And you though computers were safe Message-ID: <1990Sep4.152310@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Date: 4 Sep 90 14:23:10 GMT References: <2915@amc-gw.amc.com> Sender: use...@cns.umist.ac.uk (Usenet news user) Reply-To: r...@phi.ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) Organization: none Lines: 19 Posted: Tue Sep 4 15:23:10 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit