In a 2019 Ars Technica documentary video, Meier said he’d saved two of the Compaq Deskpro 386 computers, but one of them exploded when he tried to boot it up due to the dust in the power supply.
Lol that sucks. “Hey look guys! I found my old PC, let’s power it on” BOOM “Well… shit.”
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Lol that sucks. “Hey look guys! I found my old PC, let’s power it on” BOOM “Well… shit.”
Right, dust + air + spark = dust bomb.
It was probably bad capacitors, not the dust that exploded. Electrolytic capacitors are know to be issues with old equipment.
Rookie mistake, always check the power supply and the capacitors
Fuckin devs…
Yeah, I’d suspect Rifas before dust when I hear “exploded on first power up”
Eithee Rifas or shorted tantalums