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I knackered the motherboard in my main PC by accidentally blasting it with static electricity while the case was open
I'm posting this from a Pentium3 433 overclocked to 600MHz

it runs like a stunned slug full of qualudes and mogadon
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 7:59, archived)
I thought Mogadon
Was Mike Oldfield's second album
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:01, archived)
To avoid static
I keep the mains plug attached with the powerpoint switched off
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:01, archived)
makes no difference when a big blue spark jumps from your hand to the CMOS chip

(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:07, archived)
There is always that
Do you not wear one of them wrist band grounding devices?
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:08, archived)
it was a last-ditch effort to rescue an old PC so I didn't bother
the memory sockets have worked loose so it was freezing all the time when the memory sticks took a knock or heated up

took me back to the days of ZX81 RAMPack wobble it did
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:12, archived)
Ha ha ha ha
Cassette deck flounce..

I hated Spectrums but they were all there was. (That and lemmings)
(, Sat 30 May 2009, 8:14, archived)