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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.COM (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Comment on Amiga's Power Supply
Message-ID: <967@cbmvax.cbmvax.commodore.COM>
Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 01:29:11 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.967
Posted: Fri Nov  7 01:29:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 04:09:13 EST
References: <8610282105.AA08252@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <177@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <177@umbc3.UMD.EDU> eric@umbc3 (eric messick) writes:
>
>I like to leave my Amiga on all of the time, and was quite worried when
>I realized that we had just had a several second power failure...
>
>I went upstairs, turned the monitor power on, expecting to see a hand
>holding a kickstart disk, and saw....   the screen just as I had left it...
>I was amazed!  I tried typing... It worked!  This was a power FAILURE!
>Complete, Total loss of power for at least 3 seconds...

Because the A1000 power supply is designed to provide power, in finite amounts,
to verious peripheral devices, it has considerable overcapacity when no such
devices are in use.  This allows it to ride through short power outages with
nary a glitch.

Rumors that it can also be used to jump-start Volkswagons are without basis
in fact, however...
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
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