Xref: utzoo rec.humor:18699 comp.misc:5016 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!itcatl!jonathan From: jonathan@itcatl.UUCP (Jonathan Peterson) Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Summary: blowing fuses with software Message-ID: <324@itcatl.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 23:30:03 GMT References: <1000@taux01.UUCP> <3292@ima.ima.isc.com> Lines: 32 > In one case, we experimented with the Universal Character Set buffer in the > printer. [stuff deleted] > (it automatically opened whenever the printer ran out of paper, to warn the > operator and dump ever-present coffee cups on the floor) and then blew a fuse. > We cleared out. It hadn't occurred to us we could blow fuses with software. > It is REAL easy to blow an internal fuse in most (maybe ALL) IBM PC monocrome monitors running off a hercules graphics adaptor. I got a public domain memory resident memory dumper that fried my monocrome display every time (twice, maybe 3 times) I used it, before remembering that the author said NOT to use it with hercules. (Hey it worked FINE on my EGA :-)). I looked at some Hercules references, saw some warnings, did what they said not to and sure enough! A monocrome monitor frier. Since we had a bunch of spare fuses laying around the lab I worked in at school, I HAD to prove this one to just about eveyone who walked in. Needless to say I usually didn't bother screwing the case of my monitor back together. DISCLAIMER: unless you know what you are doing, I don't recomend opening up anything with a picture tube in it. Remeber there are NO USER SERVICABLE PARTS INSIDE. A repair guy would probably get $30 to replace this fuse and at $60-80 for a monitor, it just ain't worth it. jonny #include jonathan@itcatl.gatech.edu| "There are things you don't know about me Dottie... DISC Access | Things you wouldn't understand, Products Group, Inc. | things you couldn't understand, Atlanta, GA | things you SHOULDN'T understand."