Re: Blowing up a PC (was: Re: Stupid programming errors)

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From: wh... William H Broadley
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 03:49

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In my highschool we had Apple II's and frustrated students would repeatedly
hit and hold the reset key numerous times.  It eventually produces a dump
of ROM or something.  Shortly afterwards smoke starts coming out of the machine.
I don't believe we ever lost a machine though.

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From: wh...@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William H Broadley)
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Subject: Re: Blowing up a PC (was:  Re: Stupid programming errors)
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