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In Reply to: RE: AND PLACE INSIDE A FARADAY CAGE. posted by Tony Lauck on August 15, 2012 at 16:53:18
"EMP has been known to kill brand new PCs still sitting in unopened packaging. If you are worried about such things you need to live inside a Faraday cage, which is what a friend built after a local lightening strike destroyed several virgin computers."Hey Tony, I understand what you're saying, and I suppose it's possible.
However, if it was 'likely', there would be proof and numerous examples, and I haven't seen any. In 30 years of working with personal computers, your's is the only story I've heard regarding that. Even then, since your friend's computers were new, in unopened boxes, there is no way to affirm that a lightning strike toasted them - more likely they were already toast. Your friend does not know - he's just guessing.
Anyway, thanks for the reply!
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I consider what I saw "proof".I saw the house (on a pinnacle). I saw the absurd number of lightening rods being installed on top. I saw the mesh grid of thick heavy wires across the entire roof. I saw the mesh grid of wires up and down every wall of the building, going between every pair of windows, horizontally and vertically. I saw the workmen pounding stakes into the ground.
I asked the owner why he was putting in such "absurd" lightening protection and he told me about what had happened to three PCs in their unopened shipping crates. He showed me the three new unopened PCs. He is a well regarded author of books on computing technology and definitely a person of integrity. I have no reason to doubt his story. The owner had been affiliated with IBM at a high level and undoubtedly still had many personal connections with the company. I am sure he was aware in detail of how these machines had been damaged. Since what he reported is consistent with my understanding of theory I consider this matter "case closed".
One can debate the applicability to other sites, since few people live on top of a pinnacle.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 08/18/12
Let's hope we don't get to all witness this debacle first hand. A single nuke at high altitude over Iowa would trash most electronics in the 48 contiguous states. (Damage was noted in Hawaii after a nuke test in the Pacific over 1000 miles away.) The doomsday types say the same thing can happen from a really bad solar storm, or at least enough transformers wiped out to take down the power grid for months with attendant total breakdown of society.
Fortunately, we only have to make it through to December 22, 2012 to prove the worst doom sayers wrong. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
"A single nuke at high altitude over Iowa would trash most electronics in the 48 contiguous states."
Yet another reason to move to Portofino.
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