Re: formatting floppies, no longer the os supremacy test?

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On Sunday, Feb 7, 2010, Anon wrote:
>
> They probably used a self-resetting polymer fuse as the overcurrent
> protection device. Polyfuses are really cool, in that they can recover
> from being "blown" rather than needing to be replaced. However, recovery
> generally requires removing power, since a tripped polyfuse stays tripped
> so long as any current flows through it (they don't go true open circuit,
> just very high resistance).

Yep, I've got a USB mouse that from time to time will go dead and not work on any of my systems. But, I can then leave it sitting, unused, for some days, and then after those days it will work again the next time I go to use it.

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