[H-GEN] Mr. Chips

[Everist, Geoff]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Everist, Geoff" <everistg at switch.aust.com>)

	[snip]

> > If one were, say, to forget all of the above and presume that a
> given
> > socket is installed on a board in the same orientation as all of the
> other
> > chips (never a good idea), one might put a chip in upside down.  If
> this
> 
> Been there, done that.  Mother(board) and chip doing well.
> 
> I've heard of EPROMs being heated to a rosy glow and surviving, but
> once you let the Magic Smoke out, they're DWM.
> 
> Condolences,
>                 Chris.
> 
	[snip]

	Hehe..but you haven't lived until you've blown the die through
the metal casing on a TO3 (the big metal mothers) transistor :-)
	Click...glow..flash...BANG...clean underwear....back to drawing
board.

	Further condolences,

	Geoff Everist

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