Hello-
Be careful-- You folks are showing your age.
Lee Bailey
Bailey & Associates
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Static Problems
> 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.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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?
> >
>
>
