3 Feb
2006
3 Feb
'06
7:29 p.m.
On 2/3/06, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Could you please explain that in a way that makes
electrical sense. A
surge does not run around until it finds nowhere to go and then blows up
an IC....
Of course it doesn't. That's a bit of poetic license, if you will.
All I know is that the physical evidence I found, 20 years later,
corroborating my roommate's story included a functioning Apple IIe
with Kensington System Saver, and one dead disk drive that had a big
black hole through the analog board. The story, if nothing else, is
amusing long after the fact. ;-)
I figured that the story belongs, in an obtuse way, in the category of
killer POKEs. (Even if it's more like a killer CATALOG...)