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From: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Usage
Message-ID: <6161@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 91 01:21:18 GMT
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Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
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In article <8870@crash.cts.com> crew.wicklein@pro-midnightex.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) writes:
>
>   Has anyone had a GS for several years, and left it on * alot *? I've had
>mine since summer, and often will use it from 4PM to midnight, then leave
>it on all night as an alarm clock, using a little ProDOS MLI call to get
>the time and boot SoundSmith at 4AM. This is 12 hours a day it's on,
>although I'm not actively using it all that time. I'm curios how good this
>is for it.

Chris,

My father once pointed out an interestin business magazine article
that stated it is actually better to leave the machine running
all the time!  The power drain is low (of course you really don't
need the monitor if you're just using the speaker, right??) and the
article said that the machine should last longer if used in this
fashion.. why??  because of the delicate circuitry, the author
argued that you cause less wear and tear when you leave the computer
on if you are going to be using if for long periods of time...

I also read in the Apple Hard drive documentation (I didn't buy one,
we got one at work) that it is okay to leave it on for extended
periods of time, although they suggest not leaving it on if you
will not be using it for 24 hours or so...  I think that hard drives
are able to keep up to speed better than being "brought up" to 
speed all the time...

Hope this helps!

Mike