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- From: jgreff@plains.NoDak.edu (Jason Greff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Lightning
- Message-ID: <C1G4rq.Eqo@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:33:25 GMT
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- In article <81711@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt2841c@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2841c) writes:
- >I'm sure someone out there has had this concern:
- >
- >If my HP is connected to a PC with the serial cable adaptor,
- >and a lightning-induced surge hits the PC, isn't it likely
- >that my poor little baby will be toasted?
-
- Answer : I don't know, but if you don't plug your PC into a surge
- protector you are playing with fire in the first place, so the question is
- moot.
-
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- Jason Greff North Dakota State University - Fargo, North Dakota
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