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From: chooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave the PC on vs. Power it off daily?
Message-ID: <1480@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 18 Sep 90 06:46:29 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.205845.12803@pdn.paradyne.com>
Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of Physics
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In <1990Sep17.205845.12803@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@pdn.paradyne.com 
(Tom Dixon) writes:

>With todays pc hardware, exactly how dangerous is each power cycle?  
>If you power your office unit off every night, are you in for early 
>hardware failures?  Or is this all propaganda spread by electric power 
>companies?

I run an XT since 17 feb 87, and upgraded with harddisk at 27 feb 87. This
machine is powered up and down at least once a day, usually more, at least
six days a week. I never had a problem.

-- 
Rob Hooft, Chemistry department University of Utrecht.
hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl chooft@fys.ruu.nl