28 Dec
1998
28 Dec
'98
3:37 p.m.
Oh, I see. Any ideas where the smoke is coming from? As
is well known,
computers and ICs run on smoke, so when the smoke comes out they stop
working...
Basically, it's coming from everywhere. I think it's mostly the enamel
burning off the traces, and from the melting Z80.
> I have a scope that someone was going to trash
that appears to work, but
I
> don't have any cables but a couple of old
multitester cables.
> I doubt there would be any _useful_ activity on the Z80 pins. The chip
is
basically
melted. Most of the chips are like that. There's paper clips
permanantly fused to other parts of the board.
Ouch!!! I'm not going to try to reproduce this, but I wonder what
actually happened. Yes, OK, paper clips shorted all sorts of things
out, but what did all the damage?