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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave the Mac on?
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.040202.12516@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 91 04:02:02 GMT
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DBG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>I leave my Macs on all the time unless I know a power outage is
>scheduled (an unsupervised restart destroyed my Jasmine 80 when
>head stiction stalled the disk rotation, and heat buildup over
>several days baked the disk into oblivion). I do power off my

So does this mean that if you had powered your Mac down, your Jasmine
would be alive today?  This is a real concern for me, as the building
the Macs I care for are in is poorly designed and built and the auto-
switching power promised was never installed.  


-- 
Brian Aslakson

aslakson@cs.umn.edu
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