Now that's the "Blue Screen of Death" on steroids.
Posted on 07/13/2006 8:29:44 AM PDT by rawhide
Really? I haven't seen a laptop in 10+ years that didn't have a multivoltage power supply. Although, I'm guessing Iraq doesn't exactly have the cleanest grid.
Great plane.
Was the DC-8 McDonnel-Douglas' response to the 707 ?
yeah that's kinda what we thought. All of the 300 or so other laptops we serviced had 110/240 Volt Power supplies.
We received 20 laptops with only 110 Voltage Power supplies more or less directly from Gateway (they were shipped from CENTCOM).
Thankfully we only blew up 2 of them before we noticed it :)
I dunno... I get scared anytime I'm on an MD-80..... or AIRBUS... honestly. I know MD made some great planes in its day, but toward the end.... I dunno...
I have enjoyed some of the various regional jets that are in play these days....
Boeing though is my favorite though for the big planes.
UPS flies DC-8-70 series aircraft; they're "late-model" (for a DC-8) stretched-fuselage DC-8-60s that have been re-fitted with more efficient and quieter CFM engines similar to those on the 737 and Airbus A320 (same model, I think, CFM-56). I used to see one of those "Diesel-8s" parked on the UPS ramp at Columbia Metro Airport, SC, where UPS has a big hub. Bloody LONG airplane.
The Boeing 707 got most of the glamour in that first generation of jetliners, but the DC-8's actually had the longer career. UPS uses them and a number of other cargo operators worldwide do as well.
That's where passenger jetliners generally go when the big airlines don't need them anymore; either they end up flying cargo, or they end up hauling people in the Third World somewhere. Or they get scrapped.
}:-)4
707 maiden flight: July 15, 1954
DC-8 maiden flight: May 15, 1958
The DeHaviland Coment had 'em all beat, but had significant problems with fatigue cracking. Maiden flight: July 27, 1949
Oops.
Coment=Comet
Now that's the "Blue Screen of Death" on steroids.
Yeah. L 1011s are still hauling around Mexico and S. America. Some years back wife and I flew Air Liberdad from Hautulco to Oaxaca. It was a very nice DC-3.
I work for a place that ships out computer parts..
We ship all our parts in anti-static bags...
Once someone order about 75 of the small BIOS batteries for system boards (small quarter-sized "watch battery" type batteries)
I guess the static bags are conductive... our shipping guy didn't know that, and when all 75 went into a static bag together (since normally that's polsic for all product because most of it is boards and hard drives), when they got to the customer the bag was too hot to touch... crazy.
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