Re: For the fun of it

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2KYHg.12209$1f6.100@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
: 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.

That's a good one, Sean.  :o))))))))))

Bill G.