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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle
Message-ID: <1556@argus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 01:47:03 GMT
References: <799@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <804@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1990Feb23.041918.27178@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Feb23.041918.27178@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
: 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? :-) :-)

Hm, the light that indicates that a XXX dollar device is changing into a
10 cent fuse? :-) :-) :-)  Must have looked like that blue flash I saw
when I trusted the physical plant people to put the correct voltage on
a line they installed for a PDP11/34.  Anyone wanna guess what happens
when you drive a 110V single phase PDP11/34 with 220V 3 phase? :-(


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