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In article <3289@mindlink.UUCP> a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:

>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 A1000 power supply was practically legendary for this.  We've had power
failures where every machine in the building (VAXen, Sun, SciCards, Calay,
Amiga 500, 2000, 3000, PCs, Macs, etc.) went down, but not a single A1000 had
a problem.  Now, these days, a good many of the A1000s simply sit in the 
corner of an office running terminal emulators or video games, but they're
still quite amazing.





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Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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	Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold	-REM

Once upon a time, on a Unix machine manufactured in Europe,
I found out the hard way that there was a command in /etc
named "off."  You guessed it, it powered the machine down.
The only thing that still has me puzzled is that there was
also a command in /etc called "on."

Nick Landsberg

In article <14...@cbmvax.commodore.com>, da...@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> In article <3289@mindlink.UUCP> a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:
> 
>>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 A1000 power supply was practically legendary for this.  We've had power
> failures where every machine in the building (VAXen, Sun, SciCards, Calay,
> Amiga 500, 2000, 3000, PCs, Macs, etc.) went down, but not a single A1000 had
> a problem.  Now, these days, a good many of the A1000s simply sit in the 
> corner of an office running terminal emulators or video games, but they're
> still quite amazing.

And then there's my NorthStar Horizon. You turn the switch off and the LED on
the front slowly gets dimmer and dimmer and dimmer... I'm not certain if it's
completely off or the LED is just too dim to see.

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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

In article <1990Sep26.1...@cbnewsi.att.com> n...@cbnewsi.att.com (nickolas.landsberg) writes:
> Once upon a time, on a Unix machine manufactured in Europe,
> I found out the hard way that there was a command in /etc
> named "off."  You guessed it, it powered the machine down.
> The only thing that still has me puzzled is that there was
> also a command in /etc called "on."
> 
> Nick Landsberg

Hmm, I just came across the PSION MC400, an innovative laptop made in
the UK.  It's a nice little box with your usual set of applications:
gui, word processor, calendar, database, alarm, etc.  But it also has
some unusual features, such as touch pad [instead of mouse], ram
cards, optional voice recorder, fax modem, remote file system, etc.
All for about 800 pounds.

Anyways, it also comes with its own variant of BASIC, called OPL.
This language supports the command "off", which takes an optional
integer argument.  Yes, you guessed it -- it's the time the machine
should turn itself off for.  So you can write a program that turns the
machine off for a specified period of time -- to save the batteries --
then wakes itself up again and starts beeping or whatever.

Now, if I only could make it compute the Mandelbrot set or something
else useful while it is off...  ;-)

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