RE: RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>The vulnerability of hard drives to impact and crashing, the susceptibility
>of PC internal components to EMI, RFI, and power fluctuations also make them
>inappropriate.


Which reminds me... I was at my PC at home sometime last weekend when a 
momentary power loss reset everything around me, including the PC. I waited for 
it to reboot and wandered around checking clocks and other electronic stuff. I 
wasn't concerned about my model 170 downstairs since I couldn't do anything 
about it right then if something was really out of whack and I was confident it 
would recover fine -- just as my PC was doing.

That evening, I signed on at the console to check it out -- but I found no 
evidence of any interruption at all.

I suppose the power ~could~ have somehow dropped only in half the house, but 
I've never seen that before and power is a fairly regular issue in my somewhat 
rural location.

I'm not complaining. It just seems odd.

Tom Liotta