Re: Leaving Apple On All the Time?

[tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Timmy)]

In article <4g0ad5$146g@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Jason Jeffries <JJeffries@psu.edu> wrote:
>In article <4g040c$4fi@fishlab5.fsh.mtu.edu>
>jponge@mtu.edu (Joshua P. Onge) writes:
>
>> 
>> I'm sure this has been asked before, but... Is it Ok to leave an Apple IIc
>> on all the time.  Most computers I know of are fine, but the IIc doesn't
>> even have a fan.  I don't know  how many chips it has, but they gotta run
>> pretty hot, right.  Can anyone tell me if it would do my IIc much harm
>> leaving it on all the time?  How much power does a IIc draw anyway?
>
>The //c CPU draws 18 watts, and the brick-on-a-rope PS draws 25. There
>shouldn't be much of a problem leaving it on all the time. It's nowhere
>near as hot as the inferno-on-a-chip Intel-based machines.

A friend of mine ran a BBS on a IIc for about 3 or 4 years.  Needless to
say, the thing was on most of the time!  Damn good little computer,
too.

Tim
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