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My favorite part of hardware development is that you learn the true meaning of "bricking". People often use the term when something is recoverable, having never

by eyegor 7y ago

My favorite part of hardware development is that you learn the true meaning of "bricking". People often use the term when something is recoverable, having never felt the pain of 1-2 engineer years worth of assets turning into paperweights in an instant. How on earth did you blow something up from software? I'm guessing you were touching power delivery from software for some reason?

ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
Yup. Those were the days before everything had switching power supplies. I was designing ATE systems, and I accidentally delivered 240 volts to a 110 volt configuration, and discovered the fuse didn't work.
spc476 7y ago
Way back in the early 80s, if you programmed in the wrong settings to a video chip, you could drive a monitor out of spec and severely damage it (I seem to recall several computers of this era were susceptible to this).