Hello Steve,

Life is full of stories such as you described. Some of the best I have ever read are about the survivors of torpedo attack during W.W.II. Just search the Internet using just "torpedo" and you will get back a bunch of them. Reading a few will open your eyes to such events as the one you have been touched by. They all say after they have gone thru such an event that the failures become little things. The important things is that you are alive and healthy.

Some more information about how a transistor could wipe out a lot of boards might be interesting to the rest of the forum community.

Regards,

Charles Bannister