> From: Philipp Hachtmann
> The DEC stuff was designed quite wrong-insertion resistant.
> ...
> I did it. Once. It leads to impressive fireworks on many boards.
I managed to plug in an M9301 backwards, once. Luckily, most of the other
boards came through OK (I think I lost one chip on the CPU), but on the
M9301, I fried over half a dozen chips.
Just goes to show, they _try_ and make it hard to put them in wrong, but it's
still possible! :-)
Later on, they got smart - they gave up trying to prevent smart fools ('you
can't make anything fool-prof because...') like me from doing it, and instead
made it harmless to do - on the QBUS, many boards can take being plugged in
wrong, with no ill effects. I think I did that at least once, there.
Noel
