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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2/600 questions
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.052142.2137@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Nov 89 05:21:42 GMT
References: <367@ai.etl.army.mil> <1989Nov15.155346.25197@eci386.uucp> <1262@atha.AthabascaU.CA> <1989Nov22.162738.10433@chinet.chi.il.us> <1279@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
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In article <1279@atha.AthabascaU.CA> rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes:

>I'd like to replace TransAlta Power (my power utility).  Can't afford UPS's
>for 35+ geographically dispersed machines, I'm afraid, and we see enough
>hits on the power lines to make life interesting.  I mean 1 to 2 second
>outages.

I'm inclined to consider UPS's as a part of the cost of the machine, having
had to replace several expensive system boards due to power fluctuations
before buying them. The data integrity is just gravy...

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us