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From: baron@transys.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Leaving AT on overnight (good/bad)
Message-ID: <340@transys.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 21:05:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: transys.340
Posted: Tue Sep  1 21:05:26 1987
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References: <1246@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <768@custom.UUCP> <202@ttrdd.UUCP> <5147@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <491@uop.UUCP> <2237@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: baron@transys.UUCP (Joe Portman)
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Organization: TransSystems Inc. Bellevue, WA
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In article <2237@sphinx.uchicago.edu> cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair) writes:
>
>The last time this subject came up (though not specifically about
>AT's), it seemed to be agreed that leaving one's computer on was a
>good thing, for the drives especially, but that occasionally monitors
>would catch fire. The reason, as I recall, would be that a defective
>monitor with a short in it would set fire to the dust that accumulated
>inside it. Now I'd love to leave my AT on forever, but can anyone
>guarantee me that I won't fry the monitor, possibly causing damage to
>other equipment in the office? (This would be a real problem if it
>happened at night, when the machine would be unattended.)

	No statistics, just an example. Xenix site "transys" (our site)
	has been up and running 24 hours a day for over two years. Sometimes
	I turn the monitor off before leaving work but most of the time I do
	not. I also oversee nine other xenix machines throughout the country.
	All of them are left running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Joe Portman
V.P. Software Developement
TransSystems Incorporated
1280 116th Avenue NE
Bellevue WA 98009
1-206-453-5560
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