I remember the old days of programming the Commodore 64, when many users
literally fried their computers by simply plugging their game joysticks in.
On of the pins in the joystick port was directly connected to the computer's
video chip, so if a user was statically charged and a discharge emmited from
the finger when plugging in the joystick the video chip was burned out. It
was a soldered chip, so fixing the computer entailed a messy
unsolder-replace chip-resolder job.
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From: "randyp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Static Problems
>
> PS. Remember the old days when a little static charge to the computer
case
> would cause it to reboot?
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