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Re: A Technology Trivia puzzler.

Subject: Re: A Technology Trivia puzzler.
From: "oryoki2000" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:51:56 -0000
My guess:

Lightning strike to telephone pole 
sends voltage spike via phone lines, 
frying phone section of surge protectors 
with a snapping sound.  Surge protectors 
shunt high voltage to ground. Your Mac 
had a second path to ground via the 
external SCSI HD.  A ground loop is 
created, sending extra voltage along 
the SCSI bus and damaging the internal 
SCSI card.  Voltage differential in 
multiple paths to ground confirmed 
later with VOM.


--oryoki




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