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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldBuilt to last
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for the warning.

    From memory, it felt like the electrostatic discharge that used to happen whenever I was touching my car. Annoying but harmless. The CRT part was speculation as I was reaching around blindly and don’t ultimately know which exposed contact shocked me.

    Interestingly, the PC suffered no damage at all and didn’t blow its internal fuse, either.




  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldBuilt to last
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    2 months ago

    Live modding, huh? 😂 Takes me right back to my first PC, whose loudspeaker prevented me from covertly playing games when I was supposed to be sleeping. 😇

    So I opened up the case and figured out that the PC speaker lead had a detachable connector. And the case was flexible enough that if I didn’t put all the the screws back in, I could just reach in and plug or unplug the speaker. 👌

    Worked great, except for that one time I got shocked while blindly trying to finagle in the connector⚡🤯 (probably by the CRT assembly; this was one of those PCs that had everything incorporated in the case).

    Thankfully, it must have been all volts and no amps so I was OK, even though I let out quite the yelp. 😁