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- Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!mertwig!xyzzy
- From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Superstitions: power cycling, screen savers, surge suppressors
- Message-ID: <DNiPuB2w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:29:12 EST
- References: <By3EGq.Ko6@world.std.com>
- Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group
- Lines: 15
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- dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
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- > Surge suppressors. Again, I have to wonder why the manufacturers don't
- > design them in; it should be the responsibility of the computer's own
- > power supply to handle this. And why should a PC need a surge suppressor,
- > but not a CD player, a VCR, a video game machine, etc. all of which contain
- > similar electronics?
-
- They all should.
-
- -- "Xyzzy T. Plugh" mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
- Amateur radio callsign pending
- Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old networks wizard.
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- "Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
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