Re: Where's everyone going?

On Jun 24, 4:55pm, Doug Jefferys wrote:
> Subject: RE: Where's everyone going?
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Clay Cowgill wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got some thinking to do, I guess. Is CA Extreme
> > > still going to feature the Zonn/Clay Tempest shoot-out?
> > > That COULD be a decision maker.
> > >
> > ...to be followed by inebriated accusations of cheating and a drunken-nerds
> > brawl. An encore of "my Atari 800 kicks your Commodore 64's ass" will
> > accompany the performance. ;-)
>
> And this is bad because... why? :-)

Because the Apple Computer lovers aren't represented, that's why! ;-)

> ObVector: For the first time in living memory, a fuse did its job - namely
> protecting non-fuses. Seems a bad +5V pin on a board managed to peel away
> and short itself to ground. Scratch, no, not one board or flaming
> resistor of death on the audio/reg, but one 20A 32V fuse on the
> transformer assembly that protects the 10.3VDC to the audio/reg board.
> A quick check (with the only 32V fuse I had handy - a 7A fuse) revealed
> the board and A/R stuff completely unharmed. The fuse died a quick death
> about a minute later, and I placed the order for the proper replacement.
> Nice to know that the replacement fuses will fix the problem, though.

Yes, and you pick these up at your local Home Depot store if you're in a hurry
to get things working again.

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Mark Jenison E-mail address: jenison@cig.mot.com
Cellular Infrastructure Group Motorola--Arlington Heights, IL
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Received on Thu Jun 24 16:47:38 1999