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From: johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle)
Message-ID: <1430011@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:53:08 GMT
References: <1990Feb22.205630.26536@cs.rochester.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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<<<<
< Standard issue to embassies and outposts was an EPROM destructor --
< the bottom business end of a waring blender with a stainless steel
< lid into which crucial EPROMs could be dropped.  Cheap, but
< effective (one of the few government devices that was -- cheap and
< effective, that is).
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Did this marvel have a hand crank on it or do our treaties guarantee
that a hostile goverment won't knock out the power before invading
our embassy.


John Eaton
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