Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Power Surge protection & Terminal use Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 04:11:01 GMT References: <1991Apr14.204737.25075@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu><1991Apr14.233319.3123@engin.umich.ed u> <8431@umd5.umd.edu><1991Apr15.134627.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: texnext.gac.edu In-reply-to: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu's message of 15 Apr 91 18:46:27 GMTLines: 38 In article <1991Apr15.134627.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu writes: I bought a Clary SL-800 (I think that's the model...I'm sure about the manufacturer) and it contains an 8-pin (I think) connector that you could cable to a serial port on your NeXT. Clary's manual describes the pinouts and how the UPS uses them in the event of a power disturbance. I haven't tried it yet (I need both serial ports for other things) so I can't say that it can be done for sure. But I believe that other UPS manufacturers provide a similar interface and some of them provide software packages for various platforms for monitoring the UPS. A daemon for monitoring a UPS was recently posted to comp.sources.misc (I believe). Perhaps it could be adapted to whatever UPS you got. Hmm. I'm interested in purchasing a UPS so soon as I'm both ready, and have the money availiable (probably later this month - before more RAM, for certain). If anyone's had experience with this or that UPS - send me email. I'm most interested in UPS's of the type described above - with a serial-style connector that I can either hook up upsd or a homebrew daemon to, so that I can have semi-orderly shutdown (If I can find a woman with an English accent, we'll even problem have "you computer is out of power" . . .). Anything you send in, combined with some selective calls, will be put into some sort of summary. Well, that's what should happen. I'm willing to do something like the infamous RAM/HD lists going about ($650==16M from ship merchant, including shipping to me. That's $159/simm), at least for the next month or so, at which point I leave school, and presumably the fast net connection I currently enjoy. But will that stop me? Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."