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From: amiguy@pnet01.cts.com (Sean Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Power on/Power off?
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Date: 30 Jan 88 11:16:58 GMT
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kjames@afit-ab.arpa (Keith James) writes:
>I've been reading in this group about keeping the power up on the Amiga 
>at ALL times and understand about preventing stress on the circuits.
>I've tried it and have a few questions.  The disk drives appear to be
>checking for a disk every few seconds (a 'click').  Is this causing any
>undo wear and tear?  
>
>A friend suggested leaving a disk in each drive at all times.  Does the
>disk cycle down if there's no access to it?  Any harm to the disk?
>
>Thanks for the help.  I'm hoping to keep my A1000 for along time and would
>appreciate any suggestions on increasing it's life.
>
>Keith James (kjames@afit-ab.arpa)

I have a Pd program that turns off the klick on *MOST* drives.
I still haven't been sucessful with UUENCODE on my Amiga, in other
words I can't make it encode a file!! Some people have told me how to encode
files, but their commands don't work.?? If anyone can give me exact cli
commands thet work, I'll post noklick.arc to you...

I also have a question... Can someone give me a rough dollar/cents figure for
eaving the amiga 1000 on for x length of time.. e.g. $1/day ? Or is it higher.

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