[Techie Humor] Don't Put The Molex Where The Ribbon Cable Goes

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Reece

Back in the early 80's I had an "Exidy Sorcerer Computer" Mk II, these for the bare motherboard were about $1000, took awhile to pay it off, anyway I was doing a mod and had some fly wires connected to the 5v rail and ground, the damned thing sprung out of the "bread board" (a test board with pins 1mm apart for inserting components, IC's etc), anyway of all places the wire sprung over and touched the active on the transformers 240v AC line! yep! blew every IC!! Can laugh about it now but at the time is was a costly accident!

240 ?! wtf !