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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: leaving the Amiga on
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Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 21:39:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 21:39:49 1987
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In article <3340@rsch.WISC.EDU> derek@rsch.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn) writes:
>is it bad for the Amiga to leave it on for long
>periods of time without using it?  

Gee, I sure hope not!  :-) Mine's been on since, oh, let's see, right
after I got back from Christmas, and that was about January 5th... 
Before that, it was on from the time I bought it (early August last
summer) through Thanksgiving (that's most of 4 months)... 

The generally accepted concensus is that, as long as there aren't any
problems with overheating (which the Amiga, thankfully, doesn't seem
to have, unlike some _other_ machines I could mention...), it's better
to leave it on than to be cycling the power on and off a few times
a day.

Note that this specificly does _not_ apply to monitors; monitors will "burn"
(the phosphor will become permanently screwed) if left with an unchanging
picture in the same place for long periods of time (this is why you see old
terminals with images of the status lines visible even when there _isn't_
a status line there now).  Either turn your monitor off when you're not
using it, or use something like PopCLI which blanks the screen after the
Amiga has been sitting idle (no keyboard or mouse input) for a certain 
amount of time (mine's set for 10 minutes)  (funny trick to wake up your
Amiga, especially useful if someone is around who _doesn't_ know how it
works:  Walk up and slam your fist down on the desk, with some appropriate
comment like "Wake up, you lazy SOB!"; this generally jiggles the mouse
just enough to make PopCLI think you've done something useful).  The
usefulness of PopCLI in this regard (it's plenty useful in other regards)
is questionable, since the Amiga's "black" screen isn't really black, it's
dark-dark gray.


Brent
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