Wayne, Consult Current Technology in Dallas Texas. They made a UPS that would isolate the computers from a lightning strike on the power lines and in a power failure it came on line in a fraction of a second.
We used them on the MultiLine B mail sorter. At that time, back in history, it took 45 minutes to load the Data base for the 9 digit zip codes, so a power glitch cost real money. Two years later they eliminated that problem. (BTW, the first 100 of the Intel 36 mb back planes cost $18,500 each). RHB ************ on 12/30/04 12:08 PM, nhj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Expecting accountability of government officials does not make me a liberal. > But following this election, I'm still thinking about sneaking across the > border, becoming an illegal alien, and getting a job as a short order cook > at a coffee shop near Michael's house. I could have a little spending money, > live the obscure and free life of a street person, and have plenty of old > macs to tinker with as Michael discards them. (I bet you'd have to have a > pretty stout cardboard box to sleep in as a street person in Canada.) > In regard to powerwaves: ours have been more or less retired following our > lightning strike earlier this year. Most had burnt ethernet ports, some had > fried drives or other quirkiness. As of now, they are sitting in pile on my > workbench, waiting for rehabilitation, reconstruction, or destruction. We > now only have one powercomputing machine in use, a ptp that used to be the > web server for newkirkherald.com and now is our circulation machine which > keeps track of subscriptions and prints newspaper labels on an imagewriter > II. > You can't hook an imagewriter to the new G4s, one of which I am writing this > on right now. I'm starting to like this G4 almost as much as I liked my > powerwave. But what the hell do you do with 80 gigabytes of space? > Also the keyboards tend to do a double-space when I hit the space bar ... > annoying. > Someday I may part out the powerwaves, but for now I'm recovering from the > the ordeal of replacing all the lightning damaged equipment, and gradually > learning about OS X (weird sh*t!) > Happy New Year all powercomputing friends. > And remember, no matter what the USDA says, Americans still like having > Canadians as friends. > > Wayne > > It was fun to see all this chatter here recently. > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Reply-To: "Power Computing List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:22:19 -0600 >> To: "Power Computing List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: PowerWave >> >> Quoting Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> And I STILL haven't got my PowerWave up and running yet.... >> >> Wayne at The Newkirk Herald is the resident expert on PowerWaves(which >> compensates to some degree for his liberal political perspective). > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
