Tracy Nelson wrote:
  I remember blowing the fuse
> on a monitor while debugging an ANSI driver (wow, was that really twenty
> years ago?), it's easier than you think to overdrive a monitor and
> potentially damage it.

Ah, well, at least you blew fuse.  Reminds me of a story I read in, oh, I
dunno, "DECweek" or something maybe only 15 years ago, when VAXstations
were new and Sun was running 68030's.  The guy dropped a spoon I think it
was partway into his very nice workstation display device.  No harm done
to the *display*, but many volts later he picked himself up off the floor
and understood well why the label says, "No user serviceable parts
inside".  

--jkl