RE: tlug: linux ease-of-use

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Michael Chiu wrote:

> He he he...
> 
> phobia for that now... especially when I nearly burned down our floor one
> time when hooking up a p/s the wrong way... stupid me, I labeled "Black" as
> "Bl", and Blue as "B"... seemed to have made sense to me at the time, but
> that was 2 years earlier when I had taken the wires off... :D  and boy did
> that hurt when the spark hit my hand... I also electrocuted my fingers one
> time when my hand slipped and one finger went in between two bare wires...
> ouch!
> 

Must have been an old power supply - newer ones just won't do anything if
you hook them up backwards... but I do remember that old ones will blow up
if you hook them up wrong.  I used to work in a computer store building
computers (from when I was 15 until I was 17), and my boss did that once.
I was told (in between curses about '**** power supply') to jump into my
car and floor it to the drugstore to get some bandages and aloe vera.  We
kept a supply of it in the warehouse after that... :)

I seem to remember a customer's PC/XT's motherboard had a similar
explosive reaction upon replacing the power supply in the machine.  Bad
diode or something on the board, I guess.  He never came to pick up the
machine anyway, so we didn't have to explain it to him :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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