15 Jul
2001
15 Jul
'01
4:26 p.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>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.
A month or so ago, we sold a PC-based DEC server which we were given. It did
behave rather queerly in the SCSI department, but otherwise fine. We could
never establish whether this was due to the absolutely scorched area around on
of the screws in the motherboard. It had apprently burned, with a 3 cm radius
black spot around the screw. The PCB had literally turned into charcoal, and
you could scratch the different layers off like scales.
Still, the server ran Win NT without complaining. I suppose that's what sets
big-name server gear apart from your common or garden Taiwanese manufacturer.
--
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Idealismus ist die F?higkeit, die Menschen so zu sehen, wie sie sein k?nnten,
wenn sie nicht so w?ren, wie sie sind.
--- Curt Goetz