Testing Power Supplies! Re: Norsk Data Nord-10/S restoration

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue Nov 16 05:46:59 2004

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 20:00 -0500, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Tony Duell may have mentioned these words:
>
> > > in modern computers that can cause just as much damage!!!!!!!! Just
> >
> >Name one other failure that will take out every chip in the machine.
>
> Stick o'Dynomite.[1]
>

Ahh, that requires outside help though and so doesn't count :)
Unattended fire would probably do a nice job - PCBs burn pretty well
when they get hot enough.

I've only ever seen a real spontaneous fire in a monitor though, not in
a system unit. It's probably possible if there's enough dust and
something gets hot enough though.

> Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!

Heh, I'm going to have to steal that one - I like it :)

J.


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PERSON 2: I bit myself.
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Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 05:46:59 GMT

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