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From: mellman@ttrdd.UUCP (Thomas Mellman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Leaving AT on overnight (good/bad)
Message-ID: <202@ttrdd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 11:28:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdd.202
Posted: Thu Aug 13 11:28:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:50:18 EDT
References: <1246@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <768@custom.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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Keywords: 11,000 hours
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:6701 comp.misc:1008

In article <768@custom.UUCP>, boykin@custom.UUCP writes:
> 
> In article <1246@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, voyager@athena.mit.edu (Center for Space Research) writes:
> > 
> > Could anyone give me some info on the bad, good, not-so-bad points
> > related to [leaving his AT on overnight].
> 
> Without a doubt, leave the machine on.  Leave it on 24hours a day
> 7 days a week.  The electronics will last significantly longer
> that way.  Most computers die as they're being powered up or down.
> ...
> As for the bearings in the disk drive, they won't be any worse for
> the wear either.

I don't know about that.  My disk drive specs rate my drive's life at
11,000 hours.  I guess I kind of hoped that I could expect more than
1 and 1/4 years out of it.

As far as that old argument that the electronics don't like power cycling,
how many terminals (as a model for pc's that's been around alot longer)
has anyone come up against whose electronics have failed?  Usually, they
just get so obsolete that nobody wants to use them anymore, or the
keyboard becomes unusable.  I think I can say that I've never seen a
terminal that didn't work.