Original poster: "Mark Broker" <mbroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2001....All the metal in the cases kept things from dying. We did have to remove the cover and start pulling IDE cables over the top of the case before it finally died. Of course, that was 486 vintage, so who knows if that had any affect. The keyboard, which did recieve some direct strikes to it or the cable did stop working almost immediately. I don't remember if it had a sound card or not. Given that the only unshielded, ungrounded cord that is likely connected to a computer is the audio, I'm not at all suprised that the sound card is the first thing to go. (I'd think the second to be network.)
There's video somewhere and some stills floating around somewhere. . . . Mark Broker On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:12:57 -0600, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: "Chris Boden" <cboden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Yes, I remember. And so will Paul Kidwell, Scott Coppersmith, Mark Broker, and a couple dozen other people. We did that at The Geek Group's Teslathon in 2001 or 2002. It was done at our Sigma-6 Labs using a 10kVA coil built by Scott. And, for the record, the computer did NOT ignite on it's own. We hit it with direct arcs to the motherboard (removed the case cover) several times and all it did was reboot into safe mode. It DID ignite later, but that's after we got determined to kill it and added some chemical assistance. I'll recreate the demo in a couple days and shoot come video for everyone. Chris Böden President The Geek Group / Applied Intellect www.thegeekgroup.org Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!