Re: For the fun of it

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

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.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Greg B.

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