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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty)
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.172118.11447@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <1081@beguine.UUCP> <1990Sep16.084439.28861@uncecs.edu> <4349@cocoa11.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 90 17:21:18 GMT

In article <4349@cocoa11.UUCP> dhiman@motcid.UUCP (Ravinder Dhiman) writes:
>As to your last two questions, unless the computer is providing power
>to some small electro-mechanical gadget which turns on and off, the power
>consumption should be pretty constant regardless of whether the computer is
>sitting "idle" or actually doing something.

By a "small electro-mechanical gadget which turns on and off", do you
perchance mean a disk drive?  :-)

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca