On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, William Donzelli wrote:
It should be noted that real computers, both old and
new, have enough
protection between the power supplies and circuitry that this almost
never happens.
I had one of those "almost never happens". That is when I learned that
when you replace a multi-filament automobile headlight because one of the
filaments went, save the rest for loading suspect power supplies. It's a
quite adequate load, and it gives you a lot of extra light to work by.