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From: richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Does Turning off PC's everyday do any real damage?
Message-ID: <239@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 88 13:43:21 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu.UUCP (Richard Brittain)
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group
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Summary: Beware the dust balls

Just to throw in one more perpective,  friends of mine operated a PC
in a study-bedroom continuously for about 6 months, on the advice that
it was better for the machine to be left on.  This is not an unusual
situation for students, and the average student bedroom is a lot dustier
than the average office.  When they enlisted my help to open it up and
install a new graphics card, I _peeled off_ the carpet of dust/hair/fluff
from the mother board.  Miraculously it didn't seem to have caused any
problems at all, but after that they started turning it off so that the
fan wasn't continuously 'vacuuming' their bedroom.


-- 
Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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