[Shotimes] OT thats a lot of lightning

[bjshov8]

Years ago when our office had a minicomputer and distributed terminals, the
lightning damage to the minicomputer seemed to come from the terminals, i.e.
the lightning would induce currents in the wires going to the terminals, or
it would come through the wall current into the terminals and then down the
wire to the minicomputer.  (I guess this is most likely.)

When we went to a PC server and other PC's networked through 10baseT wiring
we didn't seem to have problems with lightning damage.

> The normal pattern seems to be that the
> electricity will get whacked for seconds or in some cases minutes, but the
> broadband connection stays up.  Go figure.  BTW, I usually keep my
> networking equipment on a separate UPS from the user computers or server.