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From: mtanner@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Michael C. Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacIIci vs. NeXT station?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 18:04:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 20 Jun 91 18:54:55 GMT

After two power outage stories involving Macs and NeXTs, I have to tell this
one.

We have several Macs, several SUNs and two NeXTs in our lab.  One afternoon
the power went out, lights off, all machines down except ... the NeXTs!  They
are plugged into a surge-protector strip, the light on it was off (normally
it's on), but the machines worked fine.  The outage lasted awhile, became a
party in the lab, and we played games on the NeXTs for almost 2 hours.

You people are just buying the wrong machines.  Get the ones with the built-in
power source. :-)

Oh, BTW, when power came back the Macs powered right up, the diskless SUNs
came up but were useless, the file server took half an hour or so because of
new bad pages on the disk and some other things, and the new-fangled SPARC was
dead for some time and required special babying to get working again.

-- mike