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  1. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!snert.ece.uc.edu!tmcbraye
  3. From: tmcbraye@snert.ece.uc.edu (Tim McBrayer)
  4. Subject: Re: Superstitions: power cycling, screen savers, surge suppressors
  5. Message-ID: <By6qxv.MGC@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
  6. Sender: root@babbage.ece.uc.edu (Operator)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: snert.ece.uc.edu
  8. Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
  9. References: <By3EGq.Ko6@world.std.com> <1epic9INNki1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
  10. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:15:30 GMT
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  13. In article <1epic9INNki1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes:
  14. |> Because when a CD player gets hit, it goes 'BLUUURRP', and stops playing. You
  15. |> then press the 'Play' button again. When your computer gets hit, you lose your
  16. |> data/program/whatever it is that you don't want to lose. They don't design them
  17. |> in because they are too expensive, and most people don't need them.
  18. |> 
  19. Well, when *my* CD player was hit, it went "              ", and has been making
  20. the exact same sound ever since (i.e. nothing!)  And it wasn't even turned on!
  21. My computer, with a cheap US$15 surge suppressor, is still humming away 
  22. happily.
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. Tim McBrayer                                tmcbraye@thor.ece.uc.edu
  26. Computer Architecture Design Laboratory     (513) 556-0904
  27. University of Cincinnati
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