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Article #22429Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle)
From: John Eaton
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 16:53
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 16:53
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<<<< < Standard issue to embassies and outposts was an EPROM destructor -- < the bottom business end of a waring blender with a stainless steel < lid into which crucial EPROMs could be dropped. Cheap, but < effective (one of the few government devices that was -- cheap and < effective, that is). ---------- Did this marvel have a hand crank on it or do our treaties guarantee that a hostile goverment won't knock out the power before invading our embassy. John Eaton !hpvcfs1!johne
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hpvcfs1!johne From: johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle) Message-ID: <1430011@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> Date: 26 Feb 90 16:53:08 GMT References: <1990Feb22.205630.26536@cs.rochester.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA Lines: 14