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From: koenig@tdb.uu.se (Karl-K|nig K|nigsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How do Macs respond to drops in voltage ?
Message-ID: <1019@tdb.uu.se>
Date: 17 Mar 89 13:43:11 GMT
References: <4240@wiley.UUCP>
Organization: Dept. of scientific comp., Uppsala univ., Sweden
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In article <4240@wiley.UUCP>, doug@wiley.UUCP (Doug Rudoff) writes:
> I have a problem in my apartment with my lights dimming (meaning a
> voltage drop) when ever I use a high-wattage appliance. How will a Mac
> respond to this? What about a hard disk? If there are problems, any
> easy solutions? Right now I'm thinking of buying a used Mac Plus.
> 

During my christmas vacation last year, my father brought his Mac home.
  One night the lightning struck, and two (or one and a half: it came
and went) phazees of the AC went. This made some lights totally gone;
some came and went; and still some were changing from dimmed to very
dimmed and back again.
  The Mac was connected to an outlet of the last kind and worked properly
until the power eventually went for good. During these surges it accessed
the disk and doing things in general (i.e. playing continuum - great game)
without any problems.
  This story might probably be of little or no use to you since your
power supply differs remarkably from mine (we have 220V/50Hz) but
it shows what a great machine the Mac is and might be of some interest
to others... ;-)
  Your last question concerning hard disks is harder to answer since I
have none of the kind. Maybe somebody else might help?

Karl-K|nig K|nigsson
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