Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: MacIIci vs. NeXT station? Message-ID: <1991Jun21.201758.14011@eng.umd.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 20:17:58 GMT References: <1991Jun20.183732.14186@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jun20.185455.27529@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 27 In article mtanner@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Michael C. Tanner) writes: >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. :-) I take it this 'surge protector strip' was really a UPS? BTW, it is a little known fact that the Mac Portable has a built-in nuclear reactor (you wondered why it was so heavy, didn't you) -- it just requires some 98% pure uranium (bomb grade). I loaded mine up and it has worked flawlessly ever since-- batteries never need to be charged, and, as a bonus, the screen glows in the dark (this is an original portable without backlighting-- rumor has it that backlighting wasn't thought necessary due to the reactor.). Only problem is that I'm going away to New Zealand and I'm concerned about their reaction. Oh well, chances are they don't know about the nuke in the Portable. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.