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- From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
- Subject: Re: A3000 struck by lightning, which chips to replace?
- Message-ID: <sN08PB1w163w@coyote.datalog.com>
- Sender: bbs@coyote.datalog.com (Waffle System)
- Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
- References: <stewartm.05uz@bfield.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:41:34 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- stewartm@bfield.uucp (Stewart Mckinnon) writes:
-
- > RE: TOASTing the Amiga...... ;-)
- >
- > This is certainly going to sound like 'closing the barn door after the horse
- > has gone', but it's my opinion that you should completely disconnect ALL
- > computer equipment during thunderstorms. And it really makes no difference
- > whether or not the computer is off. It's easier to do this, if you have all
- > your equipment plugged into a switcher unit, or a protected strip. I have hea
- > about SO many people who fry their serial port (usually people who run BBSes)
- > Disconnecting the phone line from the modem is also very wise. This is
- > something I adhere to myself.....
- >
-
- Yea, verily, being out here in the deserts of Arizona, where thunderstorms
- tend to pop up somewhat randomly during the summer, it's imperative that if
- you *think* it's going to storm, the phone line and the computer strip with
- everything on it is unplugged.
-
- Automatically.
-
- Have yet to lose an item to lightning strikes in close to fifteen years
- doing that small thing.
-
- > *****************************************************************************
- > * "What other computer is there?" *
- > * "Amiga Users.....we march to a different drummer." *
- > *****************************************************************************
-
-
- Ken Thompson - cobra@coyote.datalog.com - GEnie: K.THOMPSON23
- Alternate address: cobra@jab.tucson.az.us
-