Tim wrote:
Static's usually not a problem for the assembled computer. Though there's cases of people walking up to a running computer and zapping it to death, and mouse cables charging up as they're dragged about the desk, they're a bit of a rarity.
Back when computers were real computers, and the US dollar was worth about 70c (and shrinking), we had a room full of IBM 3270-compatible terminals (I think they were actually Ratheon or something), a chap (later my boss) got all charged up and accidentally discharged himself on a terminal.
The terminals were all connected with coax cable to a controller (star configuration, think of it as being a bit like a switch), and the shock shut the controller down.
It restarted okay, but a dozen or so of us lost our work in progress. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)
