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- From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
- Message-ID: <41369@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:52:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.190739.18948@rchland.ibm.com> <1ehbhdINN52o@rodan.UU.NET> <silk.722291765@mcl>
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- In article <silk.722291765@mcl>, silk@mcl.ucsb.edu (ken mencher) writes:
- >
- >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...
- >
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- The first IBM PC I owned had a boring standard monochrome monitor
- and a color monitor with no box. That is, there was a screen, and
- lots of electronic-looking stuff sticking out the back.
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- It worked fine, except that the on/off switch was a little close to
- a live wire, which can be a shocking experience <rim shot>.
-
- -Paul "Monty" Ashley
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- All just the opinions of pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.
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