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Subject: Re: How to fry your //gs
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Date: 10 Apr 90 15:22:00 GMT
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> Speaking of frying machines, is plugging and unplugging cables from the IIc
> serial connectors while the IIc is on (or the modem is on) harmful?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

	I blew part of a serial port circuit on my IIc, which requires a
motherboard swap to fix, by doing just that!!!

	To this day, that port doesn't work....   a word of warning!


--rubio  (rubio-1@uiuc.edu)