Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!voa3!ck
From: ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty)
Message-ID: <42@voa3.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 19:47:55 GMT
References: <1081@beguine.UUCP>
Reply-To: ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern)
Organization: Voice of America, Washington, D.C.
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You need to consider more than the cost of electricity in deciding 
whether to keep monitors, or other computer equipment, powered up
(assuming, of course, that keeping the equipment on does indeed
increase the interval between failures).  You also need to consider
the cost in lost employee productivity of computer downtime.  People
are typically more expensive than the computer resources they use
-- and much more expensive than the electricity consumed by their
computers.

-- 
Chris Kern			     Voice of America, Washington, D.C.
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