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From: barry@joshua.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT auto-shutdown?
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Date: 20 Oct 89 08:24:45 GMT
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In article <3597@frame.UUCP> glc@frame.com (Greg Cockroft) writes:
>
>The NeXT machines must have some type of power surge shutdown. The sun on
>my desk didn't stop, but all the NeXT machines in the building shutdown
>when the quake hit.
>

I noticed this too---last week, some undetermined electrical
event killed my TV set at home. The NeXT was plugged into the 
same outlet, and when I came home it was dead. I thought I'd just lost
$10k worth of hardware, until I hit the power-up button, and
it came up and rebooted, no problem. Way to go, NeXT! 

But the TV set is not so smart. :-)

BM

(PS: the NeXT was plugged into a surge protector.)