[rescue] WTB/Advice: UPSs

[dave at cca.org]

woods at weird.com writes:

>Unless maybe your power is on and off like a yoyo and you do have a
>really good PS in your computer(s) that works happily on square waves
>and doesn't mind a few milliseconds of flat-line....

>(my AT&T 3B2's were like that -- the incandecent lights could go visibly
>dark and yet the 3B2 kept on humming, never missing a beat -- I had more
>terminals reset than system resets -- I still don't know how they
>survived as there doesn't seem to be any big capacitor in the whole PS)

My RS/6000 has survived brownouts that took down all my Suns.

There were "Power lost" ..... "Power restored" (or something
like that) entries in the RS/6000's log files. And this is a
model that *normally* has a UPS, but mine doesn't!

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