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From: marks@pro-shop.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Usage
Message-ID: <8887@crash.cts.com>
Date: 28 Apr 91 13:56:05 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from crew.wicklein@pro-midnightex.cts.com

>   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.

   Actually, the hardest thing you can do to ANY electrical device is TURN IT
ON. That first surge of power is the greatest shock it will feel on a routine
day. I leave mine on 24 hours a day to run the BBS. The hard drive went about
5 months ago, the monitor went about 9 months ago, (had a bad year...) but the
CPU keeps on ticking.

   The best advice I can give you is to use a cooling fan, and turn off the
monitor if you don't need it. It runs very hot. The internal (or external)
speaker will still work if that is how you have the alarm hooked up.

   Oh, and another thing you will gain is battery life. If you don't turn the
CPU off, the battery will last MUCH longer because you don't use it to
maintain the system while it is off.

   Oh, my system is 4 years old

-- Mark

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