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Title: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: orb85750 on December 02, 2010, 05:47:21 PM
Apple's lovely equipment did.  This happened just a few miles from my house:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/01/magsafe_house_fire/
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 02, 2010, 05:51:37 PM
No saying I did, not saying I didn't... just in case the Insurance company find this and want's their money back...  :sealed:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Dazxy2001 on December 02, 2010, 07:07:13 PM
Used to worry about the smell coming from an A1200 power brick I owned but never seemed to warm up enough to cause concern about it igniting
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: hardlink on December 02, 2010, 07:28:02 PM
Quote from: Franko;596444
No saying I did, not saying I didn't... just in case the Insurance company find this and want's their money back...  :sealed:

After he ruined CBM & the future of the Amiga, I hear Medhi Ali removed public listings of his phone and address due to similar concerns ...


This just in :)

http://digg.com/news/technology/The_Man_Who_Brought_Down_Commodore_Computers_Medhi_Ali
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Heiroglyph on December 02, 2010, 07:42:03 PM
http://stoneridgepartners.biz/principals.htm

Quote
prior experience includes serving as the President of Commodore International, where he accomplished a major operational turnaround. Mehdi served as a Vice President at General Motors Corporation


Wow, he's got a hell of a track record.

Does "turnaround" cover from profitable to bankrupt? lol
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: ChuckT on December 02, 2010, 07:44:28 PM
Yes.  There was one in the Philadelphia Tristate Area.  It was an Amiga 1000 with a bridgeboard on one side.  The owner came home just a minute or two after the fire started and it was an Amiga 1000 on fire.  People were calling his BBS from places like Florida so the drives were running constantly because at that time there weren't a lot of public domain programs at that time.
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 02, 2010, 07:58:26 PM
Quote from: Heiroglyph;596476
http://stoneridgepartners.biz/principals.htm



Wow, he's got a hell of a track record.

Does "turnaround" cover from profitable to bankrupt? lol


Medhi Ali is the true antichrist of the Amiga world, I'd love to nail that little bugger to a cross... :madashell:

(mind you he's a rich little antichrist though... :))
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Kesa on December 02, 2010, 09:41:11 PM
I'm ashamed to admit it but yes i almost did burn my house down. When i was about 10 i had a temper problem. I had a habbit of punching things when i lost. After i lost a game (can't remember which) i punched the monitor on the screen and the monitor went flying off the back of the table. Sparks flew everywhere and set fire to the curtains which i wisely moved quickly out the way after i hand held the flame to put it out. I never lost my temper again. Lifes biggest lesson.
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Heiroglyph on December 02, 2010, 09:50:47 PM
Quote from: Kesa;596502
I never lost my temper again. Lifes biggest lesson.


I can tell you've mellowed out by your avatar ;)
Title: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: tone007 on December 02, 2010, 09:54:12 PM
Quote from: Kesa;596502
I'm ashamed to admit it but yes i almost did burn my house down. When i was about 10 i had a temper problem. I had a habbit of punching things when i lost. After i lost a game (can't remember which) i punched the monitor on the screen and the monitor went flying off the back of the table. Sparks flew everywhere and set fire to the curtains which i wisely moved quickly out the way after i hand held the flame to put it out. I never lost my temper again. Lifes biggest lesson.


Was this yesterday?
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 02, 2010, 10:00:06 PM
This one's for you Kesa... :lol:

[youtube]rxU9zm7t8Cg&feature=fvst[/youtube]
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Kesa on December 02, 2010, 10:02:13 PM
Quote from: Franko;596514
This one's for you Kesa... :lol:

[youtube]rxU9zm7t8Cg&feature=fvst[/youtube]

It's funny that you mentioned it. I Actually had a mohawk when i was 16  :mickeymouse:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 02, 2010, 10:08:43 PM
Quote from: Kesa;596515
It's funny that you mentioned it. I Actually had a mohawk when i was 16  :mickeymouse:


I reckon that's why you now wear a mellon on your napper... :lol:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: tone007 on December 03, 2010, 03:13:02 AM
I zapped myself good with 110V poking around inside a dead 3000T power supply while it was plugged in.  Live heatsink indeed!

No fires though, just nearly bit my tongue off.
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 03, 2010, 03:16:58 AM
Quote from: tone007;596615
I zapped myself good with 110V poking around inside a dead 3000T power supply while it was plugged in.  Live heatsink indeed!

No fires though, just nearly bit my tongue off.


Ya big softie ye, we zap ourselves with 240 volts over here, twice the fun... :)
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: tone007 on December 03, 2010, 03:17:53 AM
I wouldn't last a year in a country with 240V.
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 03, 2010, 03:23:09 AM
Quote from: tone007(A.K.A Inspector Clouseau);596617
I wouldn't last a year in a country with 240V.


by doungs bill a bit ore since I bast got zapped... :sealed:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Kesa on December 03, 2010, 03:26:26 AM
At year 7 camp when i was 12 my friend pushed me into an electric fence    :shocked:

Yeah real funny   :madashell:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 03, 2010, 03:28:03 AM
Quote from: Kesa;596620
At year 7 camp when i was 12 my friend pushed me into an electric fence    :shocked:

Yeah real funny   :madashell:

If that's what your friends do to you I dread to think what your enemies would do... :eek:
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: mechy on December 03, 2010, 04:47:04 AM
Quote from: orb85750;596443
Apple's lovely equipment did.  This happened just a few miles from my house:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/01/magsafe_house_fire/


The early early c64 psu's had a habit of catching on fire.. they remedied it pretty quickly,instead they just kill the c64 now LOL
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: save2600 on December 03, 2010, 04:56:27 AM
No. But I know someone that had an antique radio (cloth cord) that literally burned their house down.
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: fishy_fiz on December 03, 2010, 07:50:10 AM
I cant recall which magazine it was, one of the bigger publications back in the day (either CU Amiga, AF, or ACAR I beleive), but I recall an article about someones house burning down, melting someones a1200, but it still worked :) Anyone else see this ?
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: bloodline on December 03, 2010, 08:13:17 AM
Quote from: Heiroglyph;596476
http://stoneridgepartners.biz/principals.htm



Wow, he's got a hell of a track record.

Does "turnaround" cover from profitable to bankrupt? lol
Indeed it does!

This guy makes his money by screwing corporations. But he still gets gigs because he has experience handling billion dollar companies. I hink it was Steve Jobs who said that he brought John Scully into Apple because the company had grown to be massive, and they needed someone with experience running a massive company! That didn't work out well for Apple did it :-/

The business world is a conservative one, and conservative thinking keeps you at the sataus quo at best, and destroys the company at worst... But most of the time it slowly atrophies the company :(
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: orb85750 on December 04, 2010, 06:25:02 PM
Have you seen the new iFLAME charger at the Apple store?
Title: Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
Post by: Franko on December 04, 2010, 07:07:11 PM
Quote from: fishy_fiz;596650
I cant recall which magazine it was, one of the bigger publications back in the day (either CU Amiga, AF, or ACAR I beleive), but I recall an article about someones house burning down, melting someones a1200, but it still worked :) Anyone else see this ?


Nope... :)