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From: jvb@gradserver.cs.duke.edu (Jack V. Briner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Leaving your mac on (was Re: Mac as a telephone answering machine?)
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Date: 13 Feb 90 22:27:37 GMT
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> Has anyone who leaves his mac(IIcx) on all the time ever bothered
>to figure out how much this costs in electricity a month? ...
>
>Jefferson Alan Dinkins       			 

I know that my power bill went up $30 when I got my CX and two page
display.  I suspect the display is most of the power and I turn it off.
(It is rated for 15A.  So if 1.6KW (110V*15A) at $0.12/(KW/H) = $0.20/H.)

Jack