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From: taubman@boulder.Colorado.EDU (TAUBMAN JASON ROBERT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Computer on 24hrs.day? (yes or no)
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Date: 9 Apr 90 21:54:13 GMT
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In article <1990Apr5.191427.28003@tinton> dan@tinton.UUCP (Daniel Masi <masid>) writes:
>In article <18908.26174f84@merrimack.edu> linderd@hubdub.UUCP writes:
>>In article <28311@ubvax.UB.Com>, gregk@ubvax.UB.Com (Greg Kendall) writes:
>>> In article <MORGAN.90Mar28233102@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) writes:
>>> 
>>> ... stuff deleted ...
>>>>My undertanding is that it is indeed harder on the system to have the
>>>>shock of being turned on than to be left on, but that the difference
>>> 
>>> This is exactly my point. A lot of people "understand" this point.
>>> I know of no evidence (such as MTBF numbers) on which to beleive it.
>>
>>  My big concern (and the reason I don't leave my PC on all the time) is the
>>*moving* parts, namely the power supply fan and the disk drive motor.  Also,

  Just for the record, I operate a BBS with a '286 machine, with 2 40
meg drives, and one or two other goodies, and the machine has only been
shut off once or twice in the last year for moving, and routine
maintenace (cleaning it out). I have had no trouble whatsoever with
leaving it on. The power seems to be fairly clean here though. 

   Jason Taubman

taubman@snoopy.colorado.edu
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