tg@chmsr (T. Govindaraj) (11/23/89)
My NeXT laser printer took a hit last week during a bad electrical storm (the same one that caused a lot of damage in Huntsville, AL). The good news is that it is only the fuse that blew, but the bad news is that it took a technician a half hour to replace it. Considering how much I like the NeXT computer system, since a lot of care and thought have gone into the overall design I am definitely NOT happy that they hid the fuse so that it takes a lot of time to replace it. (Before I took the printer to school so a technician can look at it, I suspected a blown fuse but couldn't locate it any obvious place.) I understand that a number of printers at Georgia Tech blew fuses too. Will NeXT locate the fuse in easily accessible places in their future machines? I should add that the Cube and a Mac II etc. were on the same outlet and were not affected. In the future I plan to unplug all hardware if possible when bad weather is imminent. (I had an ISOBAR surge suppressor and filter, but it really was not of much use.) Would it help to have a power conditioner? Thanks. govind T. Govindaraj, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Voice: (404) 894 3873, Fax: (404) 894 2301 tg@chmsr.UUCP or tg@chmsr.gatech.edu