On 2/21/08, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twenty+ years ago, I'd noticed this, having completely powered down my > computer, decided I had something more to do, flipped the power switch > right back on, and I was sitting at a command prompt. I marveled, I did > it again, it worked again. I called my roommate over, he and I marveled > over this...every few times we tried it, it would end up rebooting (or > Hung). We knew that the rated refresh time was 2ms for the RAM, and > yet, here we were with the machine CLEARLY OFF (the DC fan on this thing > was deafening, no question when it had power and when it didn't) for over > a second, and coming back up right where we had powered it down. Keep
I think this is a slightly different effect having more to do with the power supply than the RAM, and I've never seen it last more than about 2 seconds. While it was like 100% reliable at 1s for my Apple II, it only worked about 25% of the time at 2s, and never at 3s. It faded very quickly.
