Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > actually read the manual just to figure out which cable
> > plugs into which socket. ;-)

> Right after I got out of high school and I was working at the school's 
> computer center for the summer, one of the new teachers took a TRS-80 home 
> to learn about it.  An hour after closing, the phone rings.

> "Is it supposed to smoke when I plug it in?"
> "What? No, of course not."
> "Should I unplug it then?"
> "YES!"

> The guy plugged the power supply into the video output socket.

> Granted, the TRS-80 used the same DIN plug for power, monitor, and ... 

I consider that a double fail, then. (The second fail is, of course, a
completely stupid hardware design.)

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