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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: Does Turning off PC's everyday do any real damage?
Message-ID: <1727@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 19:44:01 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Keywords: I hate Keywords

I am interested to know, from a TECHNICAL viewpoint, whether
or not it causes any damage to turn a PC off everyday.

Personally, I have an Amiga which I leave on ALL the time.
However, here at Boing, we are supposed to turn off all
pc's every night to save electricity.  This strikes me
as a stupid idea, because I believe that it will damage
the monitor after an extended period of time.  Also,
we have workstations, which occasionally get turned
off by well-intentioned people who think they are
pc's, and thus loose everything on disk...

Anyway, I'd like someone to send me a technical
explanation (not - "Oh I think it's a bad idea
to turn them off") of why it is or isn't a good
idea.

Thanks,



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