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• magic smoke n. A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function (also called `blue smoke'
  his is similar to the archaic `phlogiston' hypothesis about combustion)....
• magic smoke: n. A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function (also called `blue smoke'
  his is similar to the archaic `phlogiston' hypothesis about combustion)....
• Warning: Shock hazard. No user-serviceable components inside.
• If n electronic components are required, n-1 are available. -- Vuilleumier's Second Law
• Computers run because they have smoke built into them.
  When the smoke gets out, the computer stops working....
• A piece of electronic equipment is housed in a beautifully designed cabinet, and at the side or on top is a little box containing the components which the designer forgot to make room for.
  -- Denys Parso...
• The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic device
  uch as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers....
• The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic device
  uch as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers....