That will be a collector's item soon.
On 2015-10-11 23:34, Steve Litt wrote:
LOL,
Sitting right next to me, I have a 1997 Pentium II that's my Windows
machine. I fire it up every couple months to do a little Micrografx
Windows Draw. It uses my Linux desktop's data directories via Samba.
SteveT
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:54:09 -0400
Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
you have 12 year old computers?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Keith Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've been using isobar since about 1993. I believe that is why I
> have not had any equipment failure. 13 or 14 years ago the
> transformer attached to where I was living exploded. I was sure it
> cooked my computer. Nothing happened to my computer.
>
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=isobar&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=84109345576&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6200554956233029823&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2hv0pgf2to_b_p2
>
> Of course it is not going to keep your computer running when the
> power goes out.
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-11 16:11, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
>> Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The
>>> 550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now
>>> I don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the
>>> many lightening storms here in gainesville!
>>>
>>>
>> That's a great price!
>>
>> The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm.
>> A simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents
>> your computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid
>> transitions between power and no power. It also gives you a
>> reasonable timeframe to perform an orderly shutdown, and in cases
>> of > 1minute power outages, which describes over half of our power
>> outages here in Seminole County Florida, you just keep computing.
>>
>> Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and
>> all the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down, (Brother
>> MFC8810dw prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS
>> click, but otherwise there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to
>> thing what would happen to my box if I didn't have a UPS.
>>
>> I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my
>> whole-house pfSense router/firewall.
>>
>> SteveT
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