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[Dow Hurst]

Okay, now who is wasting bandwidth? ;-)
Dow

Geoffrey wrote:

> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>>> wimps.
>>
>>
>>
>> HEY!! We were more concerned about trashing the box! We actually cut 
>> into live power lines on an extra machine to see if it was possible
>> to add a pair of 3-prong plugs to support changing extension cords
>> while we went down 5 flights of stairs, down 2 city blocks, across
>> one heavily trafficked street, and then back down another flight of
>> steps to the new lab room. The problem was electrical. Different
>> supply lines had different voltages and different ground connections.
>> We burned up 5 or 6 power supplies making the transitions between
>> buildings. We considered running a REALLY long cord but the
>> transition to the new building power was the impossible one. It was
>> actually out of phase with the building across the street. So we
>> would have needed a phase-modulating power supply to interface
>> between the AC supply and the pc power supply. We had one in the
>> department, but we were expressly forbidden from using it or any
>> other equipment currently in use by any research professor on any 
>> project.
>
>
> So you had the means at your disposal to resolve the issue, yet you 
> took the easy way out.... :)
>
>>
>> And you called us wimps!
>
>

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