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From: mjb@netcom.COM (Martin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON?
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.062339.2152@netcom.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 06:23:39 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.154552.14096@infonode.ingr.com> <1991Jun8.081224.19511@nntp.hut.fi> <3030@public.BTR.COM>
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In article <3030@public.BTR.COM> thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:
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>I'm surprised to read that.  In my opinion, if your computer is not instantly
>available to serve you, then you are a slave to your computer.
>Because I consider my computers as "tools", I keep them running constantly
>so that *I* need NOT wait to take notes during a phone call, or check out a
>piece of code, or search some database, or enter financial transactions, or
>anything else for which *I* use computers.  If I had to wait for bootup then
>I've been inconvenienced and the potential of the computer as an appliance has
>been diminished.

Exactly!!

                                   - mjb -

                                mjb@netcom.com

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