25 Aug
2006
25 Aug
'06
9:29 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
I did this in high school with a plain cord with a
switch on it. The
pickle seemed to have enough resistance to not heat up the wire. It's
also a very good idea to do stuff like this outside otherwise you'll stink
up your house. The most interesting part of this stunt, I thought, was
that only one end of the pickle glowed.
A bit of trivia, the reason you see a lot of HP/Compaq mentioned in
these is because the guys that built the Alpha chips worked at DEC,
which as bought by Compaq. The Alpha chips were coded with EV - as in
Electro Vlassic. :-)
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