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From: jdinkins@viper.calpoly.edu (Jeff Dinkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Leaving your mac on (was Re: Mac as a telephone answering machine?)
Message-ID: <25d708be.6ee2@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 90 19:04:30 GMT
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Reply-To: jdinkins@viper.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Jeff Dinkins)
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dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>cramer@athens.tmc.edu (Bill Cramer) writes:
>>I sure don't want to leave my $$$ computer (mac or
>>otherwise) up all day and night waiting to record phone calls from 
>>aluminum siding salecritters :-)
>
>Except during a thunderstorm, leaving your $$$ computer on all the time
>is better for it than power-cycling it frequently.  If you use your computer
>more than once a week, you're probably better off leaving it on.

 Has anyone who leaves his mac(IIcx) on all the time ever bothered
to figure out how much this costs in electricity a month? I'd really
like to know (I'm also running a jasmine dd40 with the cx (hmm...
no jasmine bashing here yet, still runs great (crossing fingers)... 
mind you, its always turned on :-))


Jefferson Alan Dinkins       			 
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