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To: Andy from Beaverton

It can happen, although it is rare.

I have seen some pretty spectacular hardware failures.


4 posted on 10/21/2004 9:53:11 PM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1
I worked at a computer store when Intel released the 386 chip.

We saw more than one of those go "pop" and then a puff of smoke, leaving a dime sized hole in the processor chip.

Pretty interesting
27 posted on 10/21/2004 10:23:26 PM PDT by birbear (<this page left blank>)
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