Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcc6!rblewitt From: rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: MacIIci vs. NeXT station? Message-ID: <20842@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 21 Jun 91 19:36:43 GMT References: <1991Jun20.183732.14186@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jun20.185455.27529@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 37 In article mtanner@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Michael C. Tanner) writes: >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. Even from the other side of the country I can tell that your nexts were not plugged into a surge-protector, but they were in fact plugged into a UPS (Uninteruptable Power Supply). They are very useful devices that are designed so that you can safely shut the machine down instead of getting the instant off. >You people are just buying the wrong machines. Get the ones with the built-in >power source. :-) No normal desktop machine has its own power source. See above. A UPS for the next would cost $3-500, so no way is it included. >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. File servers are like that. I worked in a place with a SG 280 server that would take ~2 hours to come up under seminormal circumstances, after a storm induced power outage, it was flakey for months. Rick _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________.sig____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ The generic .sig Rick Blewitt rblewitt@ucsd.edu