Re: apple iie overheat question

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <d3Pee.7768$BE3.5885@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
 Steven Read <steveread---REMOVETHIS---@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Awesome!  Apple-ii BBS!  I forgot all about those.  I have NO cards 
> installed other than a disk controller, and the disk will not be running 
> during this period.  How would I attach a fan?  I looked at the board 
> and didn't see any power connections possible.  But it sounds like, if I 
> keep this in a cool basement, with the lid off, I might be OK, eh? 
> Sweet!  But I am still curious about attaching a 12v pc fan...
> 
> Steven Read
> 
> Laine Houghton wrote:
> > "Steven Read" <steveread---REMOVETHIS---@mindspring.com> wrote in message 
> > news:3yNee.7639$BE3.859@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > 
> >>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
> > 
> > 
> > Consider how many BBS's were run 24/7/365 on their apple 2's
> > 
> > 
> > 

Run it. You've got nothing to worry abotu uless it's sealed up somehow, 
or the room hits 120+F. 

If you happen to stumble across a Kensington System Saver at a thrift 
store, I wouldn't hesitate to pick it up and hang it on the side of the 
beast if it was cheap (I liked having a power switch up front and an 
extra socket on the back that it controlled that would cut everything 
with one clearly audible "CLICK" in the event of a lightning storm), but 
I definitely wouldn't be sweating over trying to find one in your 
position. 

When I was running, though... Well, a Kensington was pretty much 
mandatory. My rig was crammed with a Disk II card in slot 4, a UniDisk 
3.5 card in slot 5, and a controller for a pair of the newer "push in on 
the dingus on the front to make the disk pop out" type floppy drive that 
replaced the Disk II (UniDrive?) in slot 6, an Aux slot 4 meg RAM card, 
SSC for the Immy 2 in slot 1, Another SSC for the modem (A blazing fast 
- for its day - 1200 baud "Zoom HS") in slot 2, Transwarp IIe in slot 3, 
and my pride and joy in slot 7: An Apple SCSI card talking to a 20 meg 
Apple HDSC external hard drive and an Apple CD-SC caddy-style CD-ROM 
drive, both of which were $200 toys that had been used as display units 
on a Mac at the local computer store. 

Nowdays, if a HD costs 200 clams, it better-by-god be at least half a 
terrabyte, eh? And 200 bucks for a straight-up, single speed CD-ROM 
drive??? ARE YOU STONED?!?!? Or just stupid? Offer him an Abe, and 
you're STILL getting robbed! How times change, huh? :)

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