EMP

You can't, probably, short of burying it deep. There are some things you can do to mitigate the effects of the EMP. You can add a boat load of Tranzorbs® to all the signals, for instance. You can seal it in a metal box, a Faraday cage - but this will stop only the electrical fields, not the magnetic. You can seal it up in mu-metal, or other similar exotic material that can shield it from magnetic fields.

umm, and you need this because...?

It is needed because it could be marketable in the US near cities that might be terrorists targets for an EMP device. If you will remember people built bomd shelters in the 1960's that they grow mushrooms in.

Am amazed, This stupid thread still going on?

Wangito.

...stupid thread still going on...

Got plenty of rating. Can't argue with folks' hunger for entertainment.

Honestly: Didn't you like the original post? I think it's a web classic.

Shalom Yuval,

"it's a web calassic"....Unfortunately so.

Wangito.

Still worried that EMP might take out this thread. Shouldn't we wrap it in mu-metal or something and bury it in a concrete bunker?

-e

Wrapping trash in μ-metal? too expensive.

Wangito.

No, no, no. The whole point in protecting the laptop from EMP was, to preserve your precious last thoughts, before entering the kingdom of heaven. Don't you see? "It's not for me, it's for posterity..."

As in: "Groucho is not my real name, I'm only breaking it for a friend..."

Isnt there also a material called....Starlight? I cant remember but i thought there was a metal designed for that exact reason.

The only possible and very expensive way, is to get yourself a good lawyer

I guess that this is a divorce case.

Wangito.

If there is a big EMP event it is most likely that laptop computers will be a very low priority to most people, because they will be dead.

It is possible to protect electronic equipment by shielding try the pentagon for advice.

There is no point in trying to market this type of product it would be far too expencive and bulky heavy. All infrastucture would most likely to be fried so even if you could power up what use would it be?

If you are looking to market a service to individuals who are looking to have a laptop working "after" an EMP event, it's cheaper and more cost effective by far to simply market a secure data storage service with the file server on the other side of the planet, combined with storage of a laptop sitting in a self-addressed overnight package, also on the other side of the planet, ready to ship out the day-after. In fact, if you could pre-package the shipping containers with a docking-port cable sticking out of the box, you could set up the LAN for remote access directly to their own laptop...but then, by the time they pay for that, they could just order a new cheaper, faster laptop from China and download their saved data onto the new laptop.

Either way, modern data storage and just-in-time delivery of commodity products has eliminated your target market, unless they actually expect to USE their laptop DURING an EMP event, which is ridiculous. Your box would need to be the size of, and protected with layered faraday cages as well as dense anti-magnetic field mass elements like, well, NORAD for instance...

I'm pretty sure that without their computers, even UPS will not be making any overnight deliveries. Besides, how will they get their trucks through the streets clogged with looters?

Invent a laptop that operates by nano-sized vacuum tubes.

How about an abacus, a pencil and a pad of paper?

...nano-sized vacuum tubes...

Right on !

Ok as long as you don't want to manufacture it in the EU - Hg is no longer allowed in manufacturing processes. Hg Thermometers are banned and Hg barometers are likely to be next.

And...don't drop it when you hear a loud bang.

Low-brow Dim-Wit remarks, are usually the reaction to a low-brow dim-wit questions.

Wangito.

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Launch it into orbit, preferably around Pluto?

Oops. Were you planning to use the "solar equipment" part? Me bad.