fritter63
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- First Name
- Mark
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2020
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- Atascadero
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- 2018 Model 3 LR, 2019 Model 3 SR+
- Occupation
- Retired Software Engineer, Woodworker and guitar builder extraordinaire
Eh, it happens.Reminds me of my own mother. When I was a kid she completely bricked multiple computers just by turning them on. ESD so strong it jumped through the plastic on/off button, fried the motherboard, CPU, and anything plugged into a PCI slot!
My first job out of college, late 1980s, we were working on Sun "workstation" computers. 18" x 18" VME cards in that chasis, running Solaris unix. At the end of the day, we had to run tape backups with a cartridge tape, proprietary to Sun of course. I managed to routinely make them go dark when inserting the tape.
Now, these things were sturdy as hell, you could dance on them (about 3 feet high). But what you COULD NOT do, is drag your feet across the carpet in the very dry (5%!) Denver winter air, and then insert the tape while touching the thick metal plate on the bottom of it. Turns out that the tape drive was not property grounded, and I was a walking Tesla experiment.......
They did fix the issue, but I also no longer shuffle my feet when I walk....
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