Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!drivax!dambrose From: dambrose@drivax.UUCP (David Ambrose) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 90 05:54:44 GMT References: <799@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <804@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1990Feb23.041918.27178@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Steppenwolf's Magic Theater Lines: 17 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? :-) :-) > I once managed to misplug an EPROM by 1 pin where there were two sockets butted together. The little light inside stayed on for at least 5 minutes. After that, we called them IROMS for Incandescent ROM. There were also considerable comments about those dangerous "softheads" (programmers). -- Play it cool; play it cool; fifty-fifty fire and ice -- Joni Mitchell David L. Ambrose, -- Digital Research, Inc ...!amdahl!drivax!dambrose Don't blame DRI. They wouldn't approve of this anyway.