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

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From: Greg Goss
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 03:06

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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.

.../greg

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