From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Blackwell@cmu-cs-c.arpa Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Fan noise? Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.471 Posted: Fri Feb 18 13:51:33 1983 Received: Mon Feb 21 02:33:32 1983 From: Mike BlackwellWorking in the machine room!!?? Gack! Thundering (?) switching power supplies are not something you really want to subject your ears to for long periods of time (of course, a lot depends on your machines, the number of them, and the room itself). And if you want horror stories... my dad is totally deaf in certain high frequencies from working in a machine room with a band printer, back in the "good" old days... I only noise *I* want to hear while hacking is Bach... -m-