17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
12:57 a.m.
At 07:08 AM 1/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
To get
Darwin back on topic, has anyone ever became a candidate as a
result of computer activities?
I once managed to knock an AT off a shelf and caught it with my starboard
kneecap.
No, but when I worked for Burroughs one of the idiots that they hired has
a field engineer wondered what was inside the bottom of one of the B1700
cabinets. He stuck his arm inside up to the elbow and "found" the large
cooling fan with his fingers. Of course he hadn't bothered to turn the
b1700 off first so he lost the tips of three fingers! It's a good thing he
didn't find the power supply. It was LARGE switcher unit with ~380 volts
at a unhealthy amperage.
Joe