5 Jan
1999
5 Jan
'99
10:21 a.m.
The 11 year cycle is the sunspot cycle, any ham radio guy knows of it.
communications on the various bands are affected.
and, i have read that is is possible for "cosmic rays" to affect electronics.
apparently, its one of those 1 in a billion billion type of things. i was
doing
some research on memory and came across it. again, just not very likely.
kelly
In a message dated 1/5/99 3:15:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
I have heard them all! This is going to have even less
of an effect that
any software problems!
>
> >>>
> Every 11 years the sun sends storms of cosmic rays which disrupt all
sorts
Cosmic rays are coming all the time.
of electrical devices. The last was in 1989, and
they are due again in
2000. 1978 was also a year effected by mega cosmic rays and was
coincidentally the first year of Expansion Interface manufacture. Could
the rays have been the source of the EIs poor performance? I have a 1978
EI
Even if cosmic rays did have a major effect on computers (and AFAIK they
don't) then the date of manufacture wouldn't make any difference. What
would matter is the cosmic ray flux _now_.