Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpfcdc!jafo From: jafo@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Sean Reifschneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Leaving Computer On Message-ID: <5500027@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 12 Apr 89 20:27:53 GMT References: <7684@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 23 >What is the net's experience-based wisdom on the effect of leaving a >micro-computer turned on? I have an Amiga 1000 with an external > [...] I feel that leaving it on is the best bet. I don't have any proof, except all the equipment around here that is left on. We have OLD computers here that were left on all the time. I leave my computer on at home (a 2000 with hard disc, printer and modem). The printer I turn off because I don't use it very much (once or twice a week). Everything else I use daily. NOTE: It would be a good idea to get a screen blanker if you are going to do this. Otherwise you are liable to have a nice little bar burned into the screen from your CLI window(s). I also leave my stereo on, but that's a matter for another notes file. Alwhough I did ask there about it, too. Most people with the real expensive equipment said that the only time they had tubes go out was when they did a power on. Another good reason to leave it on, is that I don't like the sound of a hard disc going to sleep. Sean