Date   : Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:02:16 +1030
From   : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: Removal men - pah!

> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:46:49 +0100
> From: jgh@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Removal men - pah!
> 
> Rob wrote:
> As my Master wouldn't power up I got my Master Compact out of
> storage yesterday and was working on that instead. Tried to
> turn it on today and *it* doesn't power on as well!
> 
> Grrr.
> 
> To quote Drawn Together: "What the *** is going on?!?!?"
> 
> Wonder if it's the power strip they were plugged into. Will
> have to try and dig another one out, but I'm rapidly running
> out of computers.


You checked the wall socket actually works too ?

Could just be ye old startup capacitor, they store enough static charge to
keep working until you leave the power off for a few hours.

Its a common enough problem in things like TVs too. Storm killed their TV,
but only because the power was off for a few hours.