Compaq//safety issues

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Wed Jul 22 09:19:49 1998

At 10:03 AM 7/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>While I suppose it's technically possible to be electrocuted by anything
>plugged into a wall outlet, I really have a hard time buying this story.
>There's got to be more to it than that. Can you tell me in what newspaper
>it appeared?

        The Windsor Star, page c-12, July 22/98. It was also on the C.B.C. Radio
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>"Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo_at_wincom.net> on 07/22/98 09:47:50 AM
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>Please respond to classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
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>To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
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>cc: (bcc: Bill Sheehan/Corporate/SWEC)
>Subject: Re: Compaq//safety issues
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> Todays paper has an article about a fourteen year old Southern Ontario
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>who electrocuted himself while using his computer "when the keyboard became
>disconnected and he tried to plug it in"!!
> This sounds nearly impossible and very hard on all the young people
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>are trying to conn a computer out of their parents.
> If I hear any more I will pass it along.
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> Charlie Fox
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Received on Wed Jul 22 1998 - 09:19:49 BST