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walt writes: |
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> On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> walt wrote: |
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>>> Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? |
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>> Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this |
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>> machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it |
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>> too. Fireball is it. I guess lightening will be next. Maybe it |
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>> will be 10 cores at 8Ghz with 128Gbs of ram or some supped up crap |
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>> like that. lol |
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> Oops, I got it completely wrong, then. Amongst hardware geeks there is |
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> an old (maybe obsolete?) expression "it's time for the smoke-test!" which |
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> means: plug it in and turn it on -- and then note carefully where the |
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> plume of smoke is coming from :) |
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I still have my first PC, a 12-MHz 286. The last time I turned it on, |
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the casing being opened, something exploded and a huge flame burst out |
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between the card slots. Now THAT was a real smoker! |
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After the dust had settled, I clipped the capacitor that was burnt. |
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Turned the thing on, and it was runing just fine. And I could play the |
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ancient spacewars game once again. |
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I wouldn't expect today's hardware to survive this. |
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