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From: new7582@ritcv.UUCP (Norman E. Wright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Intro and Leaving Amiga On (was : Amiga Modems)
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 07:20:58 EDT
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Keywords: hello CRT monitor

In article <214@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Brent Chapman) writes:
>
>Why wouldn't we want to leave the Amiga on?  Most people I know (myself
>included) with Amigas never bother to turn them off, unless they have a
>major crash, or something like that.  (BTW, isn't it better to leave
>micro-type equipment turned on anyway, assuming it is sufficiently
>ventilated?  Something about reducing stress on components from heat
>expansion and contraction...)
>
I think this is true. Thermal stress from turning components on and off
can sometimes cause more wear and tear than leaving them on.
However, I also wonder about the crt.  Many of the junk and
scrap electronic shops I visit have lots of monitors with burned
in patterns from being left on too long.  Its probably a good
idea to leave something running that changes the display
from time to time if you are going to leave the Amiga on all the time.
(Maybe this doesn't really apply to the latest
and greatest CRTs, though) (comments?)

Hello,
This is my first posting to any net* newsgroup so be gentle with the flames.
By way of introduction, I am a new Amiga owner, but I have been watching this
newsgroup for several months, so I almost think I know some of you.
I'm a software engineer at Xerox and a student at RIT.
As a new Amiga owner/user I'm wondering if this newsgroup is
tolerant and/or responsive to naive and inexperienced questions
about any aspects of Amiga.

One more thing,
Several people have talked about the vt100 program.
It was posted here but that was before I got
my Amiga and the posting was corrupted somehow.  I didn't keep
a copy of it at the time, and it doesn't seem to be here anymore.
Any ideas as to how I could locate a copy would be appreciated.

Norm Wright
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