Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!wca
From: wca@ut-ngp.UUCP (William C. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Grounded outlet important?
Message-ID: <1655@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 00:12:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1655
Posted: Fri Apr 26 00:12:12 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Apr-85 04:39:29 EDT
References: <815@erix.UUCP>
Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
Lines: 19

I'd say that a grounded outlet is important.  Perhaps this is not
directly related, but recently, during a thunderstorm, a power
surge caused the breakers to "blow" in my office.  The power surge
was enough to kill the clock circuit in my Mac (which I was using
at the time).

Since I don't really use the alarm clock DA all that much, I didn't
see the problem until I noticed (the next day) that all of the files
I had been working on had a timestamp of January 20, 1904 :-).  Perhaps
the CMOS circuit of which the clock is a part is more sensitive to
voltage spikes than is the rest of the Mac, since everything else was
OK.

Cheers, and watch out for lightning,

Willie

"What a coincidence!  I was just thinking about Liza Minelli's
 orthopedic hosiery!!  Now we *have* to get married!!" - Zippy the Pinhead