Gail wrote:
> Don't know how it happened (not an electrician), but something in the 
> geyser shorted and left all of the hot water pipes (and the water) live.

I was working at a place once where we were doing CP/M development, back 
before LANs and stuff. So we had the serial ports on all the machines 
hooked to long wires that came up to what could only be called a patch 
panel (for connecting machines together, and machines to modems).

One day, "Hey, I can't get the Apple ][ to talk to the Kay-pro."
"Try the Vernace."
"Nope."
"See if the Vernace will talk to the Kay-pro."
"Nope."
"Try the Radio Shack."
"That doesn't work either."

After a few such tries, one of us got a tingle trying to plug the serial 
connector into the patch panel. Oh, jeez, house current on the serial 
port ground. We managed to fry every single serial port, except that the 
radio shack machine had 2 and we only fried one of them.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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