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Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire

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Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors

WHO, ME? Every Monday morning The Register asks the same question – “Who, Me?” – because that’s the name of our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace scrapes, escapes, and japes.

This week meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Marc” who told us that he graduated in the early 1990s and soon scored his first job – supporting PCs for Very Important Professors (VIPs) at the graduate school run by his alma mater.

“Some of these VIPs went on to win Nobel Prizes,” Marc told The Register – although at the time this story took place none had become laureates.

One tool that helped them work toward academic greatness was an IBM PC powered by an Intel 286 processor.

“Take a moment to remember the physicality of the humble nine-pin RS-232 connector,” Marc...

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Acro Partners with PowerColor for AMD Radeon GPU Distribution

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