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On 2017-05-19, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I should mention that at the time I was technically inept. I had no
>> experience and confidence with electronics; I dreaded working with the
>> innards of any machine, much less anything as technical and
>> cutting-edge as an early 90s computer! I am also the sort of person
>> who invariably manages to touch a live wire, and I've had more than a
>> few painful shocks that have made me wary of dealing with anything
>> with current (to this day, I always double-, triple- and
>> quadruple-check to make sure I've yanked all the power cords from a
>> computer before I open it, and even then I might wait a few hours or
>> days for the capacitors to drain first. Shock me once, shame on me;
>> shock me twenty times, and I'm gonna start being really careful ;-).
>>
>
> Funny, with all the computers I've been in, I don't ever remember being 
> shocked.  I've been cut by the cases and other sharp points more times 
> than I can count, and every single computer I've owned and upgraded. 
> I've been mildly burned by overheating components too.

I've never considered the guts of a PC to be hazardous (as long as you
don't open the PSU cage) because it's only 12V, but I guess that
doesn't account for faults in the PSU, so it pays to be careful. CRTs
are a different matter, of course.

I guess if the PC case has sharp edges you could bypass your skin's
resistance and disrupt your heart like this poor guy, who killed
himself with a 9V battery:

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html

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-Toby
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