programmer or serial killer?

[James R. Sissel]

At 12:25 PM 1/9/2005 -0600, you wrote:
Many years ago I had a family that bought a little electronic toy that had 
stopped working.  They bought it on vacation and took it on the plane with 
them when they came home.  Commercial airplanes fly 30,000-35,000 
feet.  The cabin is pressurized at 8,000 feet.  When I opened the game I 
found one of the electrolytic capacitors had popped the can completely off.



>Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>
>>I was bemused the other day to see specifications for operating altitude 
>>- up to 50,000 ft. if I recall - on the specs for a motherboard the other 
>>day.
>>What, are the sealed capacitors gonna blow if the pressure's too low?