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In article <IS225.26$tQ.9871@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net>, 
"Michael Mattias" <michael.mattias@gte.net> wrote:
>J French <jerry@iss.u-net.com> wrote in message
>news:39489819.3688569@news.u-net.com...
>> Sounds like my development machine in 1986 - it was such a jump from
>> an XT - I only ditched the thing in 1996
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 05:50:05 GMT, Tim Chorle
>> <timsuniverse@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I agree, I am really just so curious as to why there is a large MFM
>> >hard drive inside a machine that norton utilities reports a a 6 mhz
>> >286, with a 320k 5 1/4 drive, that boots into an anchient basic rom!
>> >It's one of the strangest setups I've ever seen, even if it is just
>> >pure garbage. There was dust balls inside it thicker then golf balls,
>> >by all accounts it should have caught on fire. Though it's such a boat
>> >anchor, I doubt fire could harm it :)
>
>Hmmm, my 6Mhz 286 (it was actually a dual-speed 4.77/6Mhz) DID servive a
>fire, in 1993.
>
>Then the power supply failed in 1994. Strangest failure I've ever seen: I
>was sitting at my desk working on something, and while I was taking a
>ten-second break from typing to record some test results, the screen just
>quietly went black and the machine plumb stopped. It never ran again.  Sic
>transit gloria.

Our old SR-72, the first "PC" we had for common use (and now
buried with due formality and appropriate wake in the back
yard) once had a short from the *mains* switch onto the case.

Our botanist was using it at the time (DataStar + ReportStar for
those of you who were around in the days of CP/M applications)
and got a hell of a fright when the thing went "bang" with a
flash and a cloud of vaporised metal, and a neat hole appeared
in the casing.  Still worked once the switch was fixed though,
and served us for a few years after.

When the end came, due to obsolescence rather than failure, we
considered salvaging the drive motors (twin 8" drives) to make 
a couple of electric lawn mowers.  ;-)

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au