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From: josephc@tybalt.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
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Subject: Re: Keep PC on constantly?
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Date: 22 Jan 90 02:14:47 GMT
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fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) writes:

>is scary.  I know that power on/off can place a stress on the circuits,
>but continuous operation will cause heat.  What is the trade-off?
>I guess if the ventillation is adequate, it would be best to leave it

I don't know about that, but here, EGA monitors were burning up left and
right so that the campus computing organization requested users to turn
the monitors off.

On a tangent: My friend's Mac II is "always on", but goes to sleep when you
put it in shut-down.  At shut-down, rather than just blanking the screen, it
actually turns the monitor off.  Could Apple know something?