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  3. October 2002

RE: A special good tool

My personal favourite was giving out 'doctored' pin-out sheets for IC's like 
the 555 timer IC - wired with the 'doctored' sheet would send the little chip 
way across the room when the power was applied...

Ah, the days before the Health&Safety at Work acts were taken seriously - so 
much more fun :-)

--phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@worldnet.att.net]
> Subject: Re: A special good tool
>
> You boys "down under" have quite a sense of humor...
> I like the "charged capacitors" thing very much..(Having
> done the same thing).
>
> > Tossing charged capacitors for unsuspecting apprentices to catch ...
> > ah, those were the days!

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