4 Oct
2020
4 Oct
'20
9:41 a.m.
Charles (/as Bill smacks his forehead with the palm of his hand/)
Of Course! Now why didn't I think of that.
After all, routes occur automagically, right?
and they are always self-healing, right?
Yeah, sure.
Yes, we did teach our students about "magic smoke and mirrors"
...if you let the "magic smoke out, it won't work anymore...."
The classroom had plenty of power outlets. and when I asked to have a
disconnect switch
so I could insure that all of the work stations were powered off, they
mounted a huge
transformer at the top of the electrical closet with a relay across the
primary.
We used it once.
and spent the next two weeks degaussing all of the CRTs whose internal
mounting straps
became severely magnetized by the "EMF" pulse that was created when the
transformer
was powered down.
I was told later, that the office space immediately above the classroom
also had some
problems with their Display CRTs that the Company's I.T. technicians
couldn't figure out.
It seems that they all had severe color distortion in the lower right
hand corner of the
displays, and most also had a radiating circular rainbow effect....
I didn't say a thing!
/s/ Bill, wb4alm
On 10/4/20 10:01 AM, Charles J. Hargrove via 44Net wrote:
Bill, et al:
You can easily make your experimental "sandbox" not routable to
the rest of 44Net if you want. Everything is configurable.
On 10/4/2020 9:44 AM, Bill Turner, WB4ALM via 44Net wrote:
Never occurred to me at that time that the "44" net could have
been used in that environment. I really like your idea of being
able to use the "44" net as an educational facility just like Amateur
Radio is used... The only question, is how do you allow
experimentation
without impacting the "44" net as a service?
/s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm