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From: gordon@sage.cs.reading.Ac.Uk (Simon Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: overheating 1040
Message-ID: <174@sage.cs.reading.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 17:05:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 17:05:08 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 26-May-86 01:26:23 EDT
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK. (sage)
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In article <3444@ukma.UUCP> knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington) writes:
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>        I've found that my 1040 runs at a reasonable temperature when
>it's not doing anything in particular. But if you do disk copies for
>a couple of hours, then you notice the melting. If I weren't hopping
>onto a plane very soon to go to the radioactive terrorist jungle
>called Europe, I'd write a quick demo program to do lots of
>intensive copying to test the point. Would anyone care to write
>a short program to copy a disk back and forth, and post it to
>this net group?
>.......ak.

I dont know about the 1040, but when I first got my 520 i used it to give a
demo at our universities freshers fair.

It ran the slide show program solidly for about 6 hours without a problem.
With the slide show the disk drive motor is permanently on, but of course
it only reads, not writes, the disk.

S.J.Gordon @ Sibly Hall, Reading University, UK