From: MagerValp (MagerValp_at_cling.gu.se)
Date: 2004-01-16 10:20:40
>>>>> "BK" == Brian Ketterling <tweel8502@hotmail.com> writes:
CK> ), it looks like a PC female-female DE9-DE9 null modem plugged
CK> into two joyports would be connecting +5v straight through to
CK> ground on the other end. I would think this wouldn't damage
CK> anything ... but I'm a very poor electrician :)
MV> Indeed - that would fry the computers :)
BK> Actually, if you did that, wouldn't the protection circuits in the
BK> regulators just "fold back" to a tiny trickle current, or shut
BK> down entirely?
Nope, at least not fast enough. You get smoke, the smell of burning
chips, and a C128 with dead RAM chips. The CIA probably didn't survive
either, but I can't check :/
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