barry@joshua.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (10/20/89)
In article <3597@frame.UUCP> glc@frame.com (Greg Cockroft) writes: > >The NeXT machines must have some type of power surge shutdown. The sun on >my desk didn't stop, but all the NeXT machines in the building shutdown >when the quake hit. > I noticed this too---last week, some undetermined electrical event killed my TV set at home. The NeXT was plugged into the same outlet, and when I came home it was dead. I thought I'd just lost $10k worth of hardware, until I hit the power-up button, and it came up and rebooted, no problem. Way to go, NeXT! But the TV set is not so smart. :-) BM (PS: the NeXT was plugged into a surge protector.)