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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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It is really hard, with al the soldering and print etching and what more.
I'm more of a wire wrap traditionalist.
When I did my technician course, it was still using the old program and we had a wirewrap course (I did my course from 2007 to 2009)
We had this big bread board that we could connect to an ISA slot in an old PC. A guy connected a capacitor wrong by mistake. When he plugged the ISA card in, the capacitor caught fire like it would in a cartoon.
He was dumbfounded and it was funny as hell.
Never let the magic smoke escape!