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From: bright@dataio.UUCP
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Subject: Re: update on pc that I never turn off
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 11:26:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 11:26:15 1986
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In article <1499@tekgvs.UUCP> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>	I thought I'd give an update on my PC, the one that, except
>for a few days around Christmas, has been powered up since before
>Thanksgiving 1985. Remember I said earlier that I was occasionally
>having problems getting the add-on 10 Megabyte hard disk drive to
>come up to speed at power on and so decided to leave it on and avoid
>the problem that way.
>	Well, it hasn't skipped a beat yet!

I wouldn't try that myself, as the power fails around Seattle an
average of once a month during the winter. I wouldn't want my PC
randomly glitching and booting whenever the winds pick up around here.
(Sometimes, during high winds, the power glitches so much that the
image on my CRT 'shivers' constantly. When that happens, I shut it down and
go read a book.)
It's easy to tell when the power failed. All my clocks have lost time...