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

[Fogg, James]

Ummm....
Do you have the old Wang?
I have a fondness for.... shit, nevermind. I cannot prevent the screams.
OK guys, stop now, I'm asking about a computer and we all know it.

Stupid joke.... I had a friend (real life) who worked for Wang in their QC
department. Whenever we were out in public and the topic of employment came
up (especially around women) we would say he was a *wang inspector* before
he could say anything.

Now back to our regularly scheduled chatter.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
~ Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:44 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [rescue] I just saw this from an old SGI page... it has
~ mesl ightly worried since...
~ 
~ 
~ "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...
~ 
~ > 
~ > Since ferros are fairly unknown beasts, they can be found 
~ at surplusers
~ > cheaply.
~ > 
~ > ~ -----Original Message-----
~ > ~ From: Andrew Weiss [mailto:ajwdsp at cloud9.net]
~ > ~ Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:52 PM
~ > ~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ > ~ Subject: [rescue] I just saw this from an old SGI page... 
~ it has me
~ > ~ slightly worried since...
~ > ~
~ > ~
~ > ~ I have no UPS for this thing, and I have no AC
~ > ~
~ > ~ --------------------------------------------------------------
~ > ~ ----------
~ > ~ One of my sources, who owns a home Onyx, says that the
~ > ~ beast's appetite
~ > ~ for electricity costs about $ 80-100 a month. He also 
~ notes that power
~ > ~ requirements should include air conditioning; the system gets
~ > ~ a bit sickly
~ > ~ at temperatures above 80 degrees.
~ > ~
~ > ~ It is technically illegal to run an Onyx at home (thus 
~ the source's
~ > ~ anomynity) due to radio interference regulations. The source
~ > ~ notes no such
~ > ~ problems with his system, but of course your mileage may vary.
~ > ~
~ > ~ Your Onyx will be horribly sensitive to power fluctuations,
~ > ~ so you'll need
~ > ~ a high-quality UPS for it to survive more than a few 
~ weeks. Don't even
~ > ~ think of buying spare parts.
~ > ~ --------------------------------------------------------------
~ > ~ ------------
~ > ~
~ > ~ Andrew
~ > ~
~ > ~ --------------------------------------------------------------
~ > ~ ----------
~ > ~ There are, of course, thousands of people who claim to be sys
~ > ~ admins who
~ > ~ have the single "skill" of working it out from a gui tool.
~ > ~ Ask these people
~ > ~ to move 500 users accounts or 300 virtual hosts from one
~ > ~ machine to another
~ > ~ and they are as useful as chocolate firemen. -- Anonymous
~ > ~ Coward on Slashdot
~ > ~ 8/15/01
~ > ~
~ > ~ UNIX and cigarettes, both addictive and both contain tar.
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~ -- 
~ Steve Sandau
~ ssandau at bath.tmac.com
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