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- From: silk@mcl.ucsb.edu (ken mencher)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
- Message-ID: <silk.722291765@mcl>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:36:05 GMT
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- Fine, after seeing all these mainframes surviving, how about a lowly pc???
-
- My old Franklin had a bullet hole thru the motherboard...(actually two but
- one didn't hit anything vital.) It still ran...of course, a nice portion
- of the memory didn't work....
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- Of course, my parents didn't know that magnetic fields have fun effects on
- computers, and had it sitting next to the microwave for a while...they
- always did wonder why their disks kept getting erased.
-
- Of course, coming home from school once and finding the computer buried
- under two inches of dust (with the cover gone, no less) and being bored,
- and having two other computers to play with, I just turned it on...I had to
- clean off the scorch marks, the dust being not that packed, so it just went
- "Whoom!!!" and no damage...
-
- ken mencher
- ex-owner of the Franklin Ace-1000 (go ahead, shoot it!)
- silk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
-