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From: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Leaving your Amiga on
Message-ID: <1960@videovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 03:35:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: videovax.1960
Posted: Thu Sep 25 03:35:06 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 21:01:52 EDT
References: <6@ritcv.UUCP> <761@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice)
Organization: Tektronix, Comm Group, TV R&D
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In article <761@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, Dave Haynie (daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP)
writes:

> . . .  Either switch off the monitor when not in use (ya still can 
> leave the Amiga itself on), or get a copy of a PD program called PopCLI.
> This program will . . . blank the
> screen after a specific time in which no input takes place.  . . .

Blanking the screen protects the screen from burnin, but it doesn't protect
the cathode of the tube!  Unlike transistors, there is an inexorable wear-out
mechanism in vacuum tubes -- the cathode eventually loses its ability to
emit electrons, and the game is over.

For short- and medium-term absences (and to ensure the screen doesn't burn
if you forget), automatic blanking is nice.  However, if you are going to
leave the machine unused overnight, turn the monitor off!

					Steve Rice

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