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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
Message-ID: <929@orca.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Jul-84 18:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  8 18:55:09 1984
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power-outages.  Even if the power clips off for
	just a split-second, the timer and clock will start blinking
	12:00 and erase all memories."

Someone is generalizing from two little data.  My 20-month-old VHS VCR,
made by JVC, has battery backup; I can unplug it, haul it to a
different room, and plug it in, without losing the time-of-day or any
of the eight timer settings.  I don't know how long it will last, but
the longest I can remember unplugging it was about three minutes.

	"I hope that helps; the basic thing to remember is that
	underneath all the buttons and labels, the machinery is all the
	same.."

This is just one person's opinion.  Another person's opinion [mine] is
that they aren't all the same, there are some real differences out
there.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)      [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)  [ARPA]