Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!riehm
From: riehm@maccs.McMaster.CA (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: To turn off or not to turn off, that is ...
Summary: Can one save one's hardware by turning it off?
Message-ID: <2298@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 1 Apr 89 13:48:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2298
Reply-To: riehm@maccs.UUCP (Carl Riehm)
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Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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Are there any hardware experts out there who can answer the following:
Should you turn off your 
	1. computer (assuming a hard disk)
	2. monitor
	3. printer (e.g. LaserJet)
if they are not going  to be used for a period of time?  And if so what is
the period of time that would be necessary to indicate that you should turn 
them off?
	I also remember seeing somewhere (perhaps in this newsgroup?) that
the "screen saver" programs that turn off the screen after a certain period 
of non-usage are not altogether satisfactory since they leave some 
"harmful" activity going on in a CRT. True?