Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.041918.27178@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <799@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <804@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 04:19:18 GMT

On a tamer note, a friend of mine once discovered what happens if you
plug an EPROM into an EPROM programmer rotated 180 degrees.  He reports:
"the little light under the quartz lid goes on -- briefly".  You didn't
know EPROMs had lights, did you? :-) :-)

(Actually, modern all-singing-all-dancing EPROM programmers will detect
this error and tell you to turn the chip around, but this was a cheapie.)
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