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Offline Franko

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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 03, 2010, 03:16:58 AM »
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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... :)
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2010, 03:17:53 AM »
I wouldn't last a year in a country with 240V.
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2010, 03:23:09 AM »
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I wouldn't last a year in a country with 240V.


by doungs bill a bit ore since I bast got zapped... :sealed:
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #17 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:
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2010, 03:28:03 AM »
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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:
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2010, 04:47:04 AM »
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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
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #20 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.
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #21 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 ?
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Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2010, 08:13:17 AM »
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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 :(
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2010, 06:25:02 PM »
Have you seen the new iFLAME charger at the Apple store?
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Re: Has Amiga ever burned down anyone's house?
« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2010, 07:07:11 PM »
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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... :)
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