"James Sweet" wrote in message
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| Holy crap, calm down, I stated clearly NOT to do this, as in DO NOT TRY
THIS
....
| That said, I've had several "protected" unmodified devices go up in smoke
| before, a few that if I hadn't caught in time quite likely would have
....

I used to teach Unix to people whose first exposure to a computer system it
was. I always used to preface my lesson by telling them that it wasn't like
Star Trek, nothing they could do would make the computer explode in flames.
I stopped after one terminal emitted smoke one time (resistor burnt up)!

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