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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Does Turning off PC's everyday do any real damage?
Message-ID: <1152@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 20:22:18 GMT
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Summary: Worse Things can Happen


If you live in thunderstorm country, the chance of getting your computer fried 
by a power glitch outweighs the reduction in life caused by turning it on 
once a day.

Its a tradeoff on the wear and tear on your hard disk running 2 or 3 times as
as many hours, versus the startup.  I powered down a PDP-11 every day for
4 years and didn't fry it.

Mark Zenier, holder of the Cliff Claven chair in the school of unsubstantiated
	opinion.