Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: LC comments Message-ID: <1991Mar7.015313.48@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 01:53:13 GMT References: <11745@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <686@newave.UUCP> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 13 To my surprise, my 1987 Mac II draws nearly .1 amps while it is turned off! So your "off" Mac II's may be sucking down as much as 12 watts! Count your blessings that the Mac LC has no power-on switch. It is saving you some money (about $5/yr at 8c/kilowatt-hr). Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ "UGH! WAR! ... What is it GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" - the song "WAR" by Edwin Starr, circa 1971 --