programmer or serial killer?

[Duane Attaway]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, James R. Sissel wrote:

> 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.

I always thought it was cosmic and x-rays they were concerned about at 
high altitudes.  Something about the charges activating the tiny static 
memory cells.  But my laptop makes it through the xray scanner ok, so I 
don't know...

-=Duane
http://dattaway.org