[rescue] I just saw this from an old SGI page... it has mesl ightly worried since...

[Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch]

Steve Sandau, reeling from the shock, managed on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:44:26PM -0500 to scrawl:
> "Fogg, James" wrote:
> > 
> > Ferroresonant transformers are much better for feeding fluctuation sensitive
> > stuff. Input on mine says 75~140 volts input, output 110 volts +/- 1 volt.
> > And I have tested it on a very loaded circuit with an A/C on the same
> > branch. Lights would dim when the A/C compressor kicked in and the output of
> > the ferro was rock solid.
> 
> We has our old Netware server plusgged into one of those things. It'd
> keep the server running (i.e. the monitor lit up) for several seconds
> *after* its plug was pulled! We had it for an old Wang. My boss used to
> joke that it was more useful than the UPS....
> 
> BTW, James, I forgot to answer earlier with my whereabouts. I'm in
> Brunswick, Maine, 'bout a half hour north of Portland on the coast...
> 
 
 I used to live in Brunswick. My parents still do.
 
> -- 
> Steve Sandau
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com
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