Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvlx!bw From: bw@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Wilhelmi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Lightning and computers - awful!!!!! Message-ID: <1180033@hpcvlx.HP.COM> Date: 27 Jun 88 17:19:59 GMT References: <5312@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 11 Such a shock to your system could also introduce intermittent failures or just plain weaknesses in the system that may not surface for some time. They are hard to diagnose. I would vote for replacing the whole system. Whatever remains just isn't trustworthy. But now, if I had to shell out the bucks for a new system, I might think about it some... Bill Wilhelmi Hewlett-Packard