[Year 12 IT Apps] Hardware Failure

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Nice photograph Catherine,

it also reminds me when lightning struck Syndal High School, blowing out one network chip on all the computers that were connected together via an ethernet cable .. yep, ye olde bus cable topology. Wish we had the good sense to take a photograph. As it was, we only had to replace the one chip. Anybody guess what computers these were?

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

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On 29/08/2013, at 3:19 PM, Bruce Riley <BRiley at studygroup.com> wrote:

> Hi Catherine
> This reminded me of years ago of another hardware failure – the offending desktop fan had a snake inside it!
> Cheers
> Bruce
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kneen, Catherine A
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> Looking through my notes for U4O2 reminded me of a Hardware Failure I suffered this year when a gecko short-circuited the circuit board of my air-conditioner. I’ve put on a photo of the offending (fried) gecko being held by my Dad.
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> Catherine Kneen| Maths & IT Teacher
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