5 Jun
2008
5 Jun
'08
2:17 p.m.
On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:13, Eric J Korpela wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Eric Smith <eric at
brouhaha.com> wrote:
Is that like, a prior owner picked that as a place to keep their stash
("Nobody'll ever bother powering this up again...) and then forgot about it?
:-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
Eric J Korpela wrote:
Well, I suppose eventually the flames might endanger surrounding
machines... On a 286 PC clone no unique hardware, just flip
the switch. On a
TRS-80 Model 3 you might want to turn it off if you smell smoke.
So on a 286 PC clone, you _don't_ unplug it if you smell smoke? :-)