From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!jim
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Computational injuries
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.136
Posted: Fri Oct 22 14:44:14 1982
Received: Sun Oct 24 00:51:20 1982

After reading all that stuff about computational injuries, I should have
known better.  But I didn't.  This morning I had to pull an Ethernet board
out of one of our vaxes, and guess what -- I tore open my finger on the
neighboring board (a Decnet board -- maybe it wanted revenge).

A while ago I was removing an IC from a socket, and the chip suddenly
slipped sideways as one side came out and the other stayed in.  The pins on
the side that came out pierced the skin and lodged themselves in my thumb.
When I pulled the chip out of my thumb I had seven tiny but painful holes
oozing blood.

And of course I've had my share of soldering iron burns.  But I once knew a
guy who worked at a TV station who could tell AC from DC and approximate
voltage by shorting his hand across the wires in question.  I don't know if
he ever injured himself doing this.