Best way to toast TTL

[Mr Ian Primus]

> --I suppose giving one 12v to simulate hooking up a
> power supply wrong?
> --Hooking 12v to a device normally powered at 5v?
> --Shorting out a buffer output?  (I think some
> buffers are designed 
> to be shorted out though)
> --Vehicle ignition coil to an input?  : D

Reverse ground and +5v
Clock an input way too fast
Heat it up far too much (soldering iron/heat gun)
Microwave oven.
Shufffle....shuffle...shuffle..shuffle....ZAP!
Or, of course, to make things appear dead or damaged,
all you need to do is manually short an input or
output to ground with a wire.

Some chips are suprisingly resiliant. I once tried to
kill a mask PROM on purpose using static electricity.
It took at least three or four good zaps to kill it.

-Ian