Smoking around computers

From: blacklord <blacklord_at_telstra.com>
Date: Thu Dec 20 18:35:30 2001

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From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 0:24 am
Subject: Re: Smoking around computers

> One of the worst odors I've experienced was created when lots of
> cat hair were toasted inside the power supply of a friend's
> computer. The hairs finally got the fan stuck and temperature
> went up very quickly. Argghhh.. I said to myself, "that's
> no magic smoke!" .

I had a cockroach crawl into my then 3 day old Amiga 1000 & fry itself
on a circuit board in the power supply - stunk to high hell - but at
least the machine was self-debugging <grin>

Lance

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