15 Jul
2001
15 Jul
'01
7:32 a.m.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
If you actually get a direct strike, or even a CLOSE
one, do NOT expect a
"surge suppressor" to be adequate to protect anything.
It's amazing what can and can not survive a nearby strike.
When I lived in New York our house set back quite a ways from the
road. We took a strike on the power line coming into the house. It
blew up my TRS80 Model III which was not powered on at the time
(Literally blew chips off the baord.) Did not hurt the Okidata
printer that was attached. But most amazing, sitting next to it
was a Terak 8510, which is an LSI-11/02. It was running at the
time and didn't even re-boot.
bill
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