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From: kris@beep.UUCP (Port'naybl)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <451@beep.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 23:30:43 GMT
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     In August 1984, I was writing an assembler in Extended BASIC for my
TI 99/4A computer.  People who work with 99/4As know that the area of
the console just in front of the cartridge port gets rather warm during
use by the power supply.  One day I loaded my code from cassette(!) and
right after finishing the loading process, the computer died with a
god-awful falsetto SHRIEK!! The -5V power supply had gone South, and
taken a bunch of critical ICs on the CPU board with them!

     After that I joked that my assembler must be getting rather
hairy since it caused my computer to commit suicide.

-- 
						Port'naybl

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