14 Jul
2001
14 Jul
'01
3 p.m.
A building owned by my employer took a strike and blew out their SCO
server. The ISA mux card serving terminals and the motherboard were
physically scorched but surprisingly the SCSI peripherals and RAM was all
OK. I believe one or two terminals were also scorched.
It surprised me at the time that the whole system was not wasted. It went
on to perform flawlessly for another year till replaced.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
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Yes. The
control board in my Dad's garage door opener was killed by a close
lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.
I've seen ISA based internal modems that took surges from
strikes on the line. Some of them looked like they caught fire or at
least got very hot.
Jeff