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From: kai@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Leaving AT on overnight (good/bad)
Message-ID: <5147@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 15:08:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpa.5147
Posted: Wed Aug 19 15:08:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 04:17:17 EDT
References: <1246@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <768@custom.UUCP> <202@ttrdd.UUCP> <252@acich.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Keywords: 11,000 hours
Summary: I live there too!

In article <252@acich.UUCP>, steve@acich.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes:
> In article <3751@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, magore@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Mike Gore, Institute Computer Research - ICR) writes:
> > In article <5911@ut-ngp.UUCP> ayac071@ngp.UUCP (Bill Douglass) '> ' writes:
> > In article <202@ttrdd.UUCP> mellman@ttrdd.UUCP (Thomas Mellman) '>> ' writes:
> > [munch ...]
> > 
> 
> The quality of the power supply in your community has a bearing on
> this issue, and it can vary a lot even within the same power company's
> service area.  I used to live in the city of Chicago, and I never had
> any power problems at all.  I had a computer running day and night for
> several years without any problem.  Then I moved to Lisle, one of
> Chicago's western suburbs, which is served by the same company,
> Commonwealth Edison, and I'm afraid to turn on my computer half the
> time now!  I have lights blinking and power interruptions from one-half
> second to several seconds at least once or twice a month.  I'm so paranoid
> I save work files every couple of minutes.
> 
> (I think that some pervert at Commonwealth Edison knows that a lot of
> AT&T employees live in the area, and, thinking that they all have
> computers at home, he sits by a big switch and tries to screw up their
> computers while they're at work! :-) )
> Steve Westfall

Well Steve, I live there too, and although I come home every other week and
reset the time on the 4 or 5 digital clocks we have in our house (I'm a heavy
sleeper, and I'm sick of resetting the time on the VCR so it just blinks)
I still leave my machine on, the power glitches rarly even make the machine
burp (capacitors don't ya know). I only come home to a rebooted machine maybe
once every couple of months, So again to all you listeners out there in netland
LEAVE IT ON!!

Ken A. Irwin
AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville
IHP 1A332
(312) 416-4485