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Re: For the fun of it



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In article <2KYHg.12209$1f6.100@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
Sean Fahey  <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Matt J. McCullar wrote:
>> assembler cartridge.  That computer eventually caught fire (literally!)
>> while it was sitting on my bed and I happened to see and smell smoke
>> barrelling out of it.  I eventually found out that Radio Shack put the power
>> switch on the secondary of the CoCo's transformer; therefore, as long as the
>> power cord was plugged in, it was consuming power whether the switch was on
>> or not!  Damn lucky I happened to be there at the time, or who knows what
>> might have happened.
>
>The engineer who designed that rig, eventually found his way to Sony, 
>where he's still busy setting fire to computers to this very day.

Was his name Milton?  Did someone take his stapler?

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