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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leaving a Mac on or off????
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Date: 12 Mar 91 16:31:56 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.163640.1323@viewlogic.com> peter@suntan.viewlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes:

>	Of course I don't use my mac all day, or even every day, but....
>I could certainly disprove anybody's claims about power cycling causing
>hardware failure.  Sorry.

And I used to turn my Mac on and off, and my power supply failed.
Twice.  So I can prove power cycling DOES cause hardware failure, and
I've got twice as much evidence as you.  So there!

:-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --
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