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>	My brother goes to Caltech. Awhile ago he told me of a student there
>who had come up with a way to physically destroy an IBM PC from
>software. This student told Big Blue about it, and they just couldn't
>resist.

Wayne says: (I don't take anything that Wayne says seriously)
I'm not sure about this one but the TRS-80 Model II computer from Radio Shack
had a problem that I was told about.  Never tried it (I own one but _I'm_ not
going to try it!) but supposedly if you turned off the video (control bit
on one of the ports), the power supply started building potential and a
freaking big capacitor blew apart.  Supposedly it happened one day at a
Radio Shack repair shop and the top of the cap buried itself in a cinderblock
wall.

Zap Savage
Savage Research
"Making Tomorrow's Mistakes Today"

P.S. Wayne also says (as an example of why we don't believe him) that there
	is a basketball court at the top of the Matterhorn at Disneyland.