[geeks] Christmas bonus
Kurt Huhn
kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Dec 6 18:06:42 CST 2002
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 05:55 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:51:13PM -0600, Kurt Huhn wrote:
>
>> They got their laptop back, but only because I had no use for it. I
>> also made sure that it was totally inoperable - no visible damage, but
>> man, it was toast.
>
> Care to elaborate? Drop 110v into a jack for an 18v PSU? Can't think
> of anything that wouldn't likely leave visible evidence.
>
I stuffed a jack adapter into the PSU port, ran a couple copper leads
off of it, and touched a wire welder to the leads. Some magic smoke
did escape, but no visible damage...
And to be sure things were truly broken, I rapped smartly on the hard
drive with a rubber mallet.
--
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com
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