powering up older machines - is it safe?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:13, Eric J Korpela wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> > Eric J Korpela wrote:
> >> On a 286 PC clone no unique hardware, just flip the switch.  On a
> >> TRS-80 Model 3 you might want to turn it off if you smell smoke.
> >
> > So on a 286 PC clone, you _don't_ unplug it if you smell smoke?  :-)
>
> Well, I suppose eventually the flames might endanger surrounding
> machines...

Is that like,  a prior owner picked that as a place to keep their stash 
("Nobody'll ever bother powering this up again...) and then forgot about it?

:-)

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