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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!aburt
- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: Mother Nature vs. Modems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.221311.10781@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Keywords: zap,uds,digicom
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1993Jan10.182706.13933@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:13:11 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In <1993Jan10.182706.13933@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
-
- >The joys of living in florida!.
-
- >Last night a lightning strike took out two v.32 modems I had set
- >up in my house. And yes, they were run through a lightning protector.
- >The strike also made my two line phone into a one line phone with
- >additional 2nd line force busy option, and changed one of my TVs
- >into a video (no sound) monitor. Sigh.
-
- And people think I'm kooky when I say I unplug all our stuff almost
- every afternoon during Spring-Summer (when Denver gets, as often as not,
- an afternoon thunderstorm). Unplug both power and phone. Get ready to do
- it fast...
-
- (And then people say a VCR+ is a silly thing for those who know how to
- program a vcr -- they fail to consider losing ones program every
- afternoon :-)
- --
-
- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
-
- "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."
-