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Article #4643Re: Turning the thing off (was Re: BESM-6
From: se... Seth Breidbart
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:22
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:22
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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. Then there was the DEC PDP-1. As I recall, it had a 1 farad capacitor on its power supply. If you pulled the plug, it sat there and laughed at you. Eventually, the console lights started to dim... /Seth se...@fir.morgan.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!mstan!fido!sethb From: se...@fido.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Turning the thing off (was Re: BESM-6 Message-ID: <1791@s5.Morgan.COM> Date: 26 Sep 90 22:22:22 GMT References: <3289@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: ne...@Morgan.COM Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc / New York City, NY Lines: 14 Posted: Wed Sep 26 23:22:22 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit