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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Does Turning off PC's everyday do any real damage?
Message-ID: <371@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 04:48:42 GMT
References: <1727@ssc-vax.UUCP> <16473@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: V-Systems -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 17
Keywords: I hate Keywords
Summary: reasons to turn them off

In article <16473@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
> In article <1727@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
> >I am interested to know, from a TECHNICAL viewpoint, whether
> >or not it causes any damage to turn a PC off everyday.
> 
> This is a religious war that comes up anually.... Here's one engineer's view:
> [various good comments about not turning terminals off]

At an office it probably doesn't matter, but if in a residential
area you might want to make sure your equipment isn't trashing
your neighbor's TV.  I would prefer to leave my terminal and modem
on all the time but interference is really bad and I like to be a
good neighbor.  Just one more thing to think about...
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