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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about the 68010
Message-ID: <180ea90e.ARN03503@adspdk.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 09:59:26 GMT
References: <ernie.5192@aquarium.buffalo.ny.us| <14382@brahms.udel.edu> <ernie.5200@aquarium.buffalo.ny.us> <3379@corpane.UUCP>
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In article <3379@corpane.UUCP>, John Sparks writes:

> ernie@aquarium.buffalo.ny.us (Ernest J. Gainey III) writes:
> |  Be careful to install the chip correctly, dont break the glass, or put
> |  it in backwards, cause you will let the "blue smoke" out, and it wont
> |  work anymore...
> 
> Sheesh, it's just a little electronics humor. It comes from the fact that
> when you burn up an item, it smokes, so it must be letting the smoke out that
> breaks it, right? :-)

   Wrong :-) 

   It's the smoke that makes chips work in the first place. When you let it
out, it stops working... 

                               -Henrik

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