[geeks] well, hell

[Amy]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> > in the meantime, they called. apparently the alternator aso killed the
> > computer. yay.
> Ugh...
> How did that happen?  Power spike?  I don't think I've ever seen that...

they suspect that when the car reversed its polarity on the original
jump-start, it surged through and killed the alternator (original to the
car) and the computer. i'm just waiting to hear what else is toasted :/

--a