486 dies terrible death

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 13:55:23 2004

And thusly Vintage Computer Festival spake:
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> My voicemail PC died a pretty terrible death this morning. I was still
> groggy from a late night of hackering and sitting at my computer (my back
> is to the voicemail system) and all of a sudden this loud popping begins.
> At first a wave of terror washed over me as my not quite totally
> functioning brain was trying to determine just what the hell was going on.
> At first I didn't want to look but I turned around in time to see some
> serious arcing going on inside the exposed PC (the case is off). It went
> on for a good 4-5 seconds (start to finish). It was probably the power

Sounds like the start of a B-grade horror movie! ;)

Cheers,

Bryan Pope
Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 13:55:23 BST