Re: apple iie overheat question

[Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com>]

Steven Read wrote:

> Hi.  I would like to run an apple iie program that I wrote, for weeks on 
> end, maybe months.  The question is, can I leave it turned on and 
> running, day and night for this long?  Are these prone to overheating?
>
> Steven Read

In 1983 I wrote an Apple Pascal program to read a list of words and try 
to construct crosswords, scoring the results on how many words were 
included (the longer the better). It was an interesting exercise in 
recursive programming, but I was horrified at how slowly the results 
trickled out.  I did leave it running for a week once, to little effect. 
I had the Apple sitting in my bedroom, with its Monitor III sitting on 
the monitor stand in the usual position, with no fan, and everything 
worked beautifully (albeit at snail's pace).

I'm curious about the nature of your application.  Nobody today would 
seriously propose using an Apple II simply for its raw power to compute 
a result, if that's what you want then you could run it in an emulator 
at full speed and get the answer before the coffee pot stops perking.

It's not a BBS.

It's not a home control system (no cards except disk).

What is it?