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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Dead C128 in need of resurrection
Message-ID: <3510@killer.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 07:01:46 GMT
References: <3448@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Bayou Telecommunications
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in article <3448@cup.portal.com>, Brendan@cup.portal.com says:
>  That sounds a little like something that happened to me..my little brother,
> in his endless helpful way, plugged the modem into the user port, UPSIDE DOWN,
> and the computer seemed deader than a doornail..

I did that once to my 64, with an Anchor Volksmodem 1200. Fried just about
every chip in the computer. I figure that the 9vac got routed into the
innards. Got rid of the Anchor, ended up replacing every RAM chip, the CIA's,
one of the ROMs, the CPU, the PLA, the VIC ][.... that was an EXPENSIVE
mistake. 

However, just shorting together the 9vac ought to blow a fuse somewhere, and
should not cause any permenant damage to the computer.

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