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First post, by chris2021

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It's horrible. Makes my pits stink. And reeks 😉 havok on electronics. This is though a happy story. I had my HP 54111d color crt oacilloscope (a vintage puter in it's own right, sports a 68000 uP) stood up against a wall. I had it covered with books and whatnot in the event a cat puked on it. Booki has a certain amount of grace, she's sleep on it and you wouldn't know she was there. Judy-Jude on the other hand managed to knock it flat. These weigh nearly 60lbs. WHAM! I wanted to cry. The next day the power supply came on, but nothing on the crt. I was so bummed.

A few hours ago I hoisted it onto a table and voila it came on. I was like get out of town now! So freakin happy. The only explanation I can imagine is that the humidity had been so high up until about Sunday. It wasn't the swiftest idea to power it up w/o fishing around inside to see if maybe something (a card) had been dislodged. Before powering it up. But I guess I got lucky. Man was I happy.