Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!dhiman
From: dhiman@motcid.UUCP (Ravinder Dhiman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty)
Message-ID: <4355@cocoa11.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 11:59:59 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:

>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

Actually, no.  My above phrase (apologies for the lack of clarity) 
was in reference to any I/O boards which may interface the computer 
to the outside world (e.g., the computer activating a relay based on
some input, controlling an automated test, etc.)

Come to think of it (thanks to your question), the phrase could be
applied to a disk drive installed in a laptop.  Some laptops
go so far as to shut down (or place into standby) their hard drives
if the drives have been idle for some period of time.

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Ravinder Dhiman
Motorola, Inc.		M/S IL27-N276
Cellular Infrastructure Div.
Arlington, Heights, IL 60004