Re: Turning the thing off (was Re: BESM-6

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From: roe... Roeber Frederick
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 10:44

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In article <3289@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes...
>On some machines it's faster to turn the thing off at the OFF switch.
> 
>In the middle of a Hack game (critical data, eh?) I accidentally kicked the
>plug out from my Amiga 1000.  I managed to get it plugged in again before the
>power supply gave up.  The benefits of not having hard disks or extra memory.
>I can't imagine it taking me any less than 6 seconds to realize what happenned
>and getting under the desk to replug the computer.
> 
My father has an IBM AT clone made by a tiny company in Idaho (Isotropic).
One thing this company got right was the power supply.  When you flip off 
the switch, or pull the plug, (or the transformer in the street blows up again)
the computer *just keeps running* for a few seconds.  Fan, hard drive, 
everything.

Frederick.

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