5 Jun
2008
5 Jun
'08
6:47 p.m.
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:13, Eric J Korpela wrote:
If that's the smoke he smelled, he wouldn't care about the other
machines. He'd be off looking for munchies... "Now where were
those chips?"
BLS
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?
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? :-)