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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: turning off the monitor
Message-ID: <530@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 14:51:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 14:51:38 1987
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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> [paraphrase] Is it safe to leave the computer on and the monitor off?

Yes.  You may know about the "monochrome detect" line on those
monitors, and that changing monitors in a running system causes it to
reboot, and you may think that the monitor has to be on to assert
this, but no: you can leave the monitor on or off with impunity.

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