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[link|http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/General_Audience/The%20Turbo%20Encabulator.html|Turbo Encabulator.]

The weak spot in this CPU was the Capacitive Read Only Storage, the ROM (Read Only Memory) of it's day. A bit was in effect a pair of capacitors made something like 1/16" x 1/16" gold plated foil separated by thin mylar film from a 1/16" strip of like material. Anyway, there would be a pulse of current along one dimension of this rig and sense amps would pick up a signal along the other. The signals were tiny and the amplifiers high gain. Hence the susceptibility to high electrical noise caused by static discharge.