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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:30:52 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. September 2012, 04:50:30 schrieb Dale:
>
>> One would think that modern stuff would have some sort of protection.
>> Odd.
>>
> indeed. The modern stuff with protection is called 'usb'.
>
>

Well, I meant for the serial/parallel chips tho.  Surely it can't be
hard to at least keep them from blowing their fuse. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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