Post Mortem Re: 486 dies terrible death

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 18:57:58 2004

I did a post mortem on the box and found that two power transistors in the
power supply were the culprits. They literally went out with a bang. My
theory is that the sinewy dust ball I found stuck to their heatsinks
probably caused an arc.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 18:57:58 BST