Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio!helios!dooley
From: dooley@helios.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: If you can't stand the heat ...
Message-ID: <578@helios.toronto.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 88 19:03:47 GMT
Reply-To: dooley@helios.physics.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley)
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Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA Computing Consortium
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The disgustingly hot weather we've been having in Toronto this week
has provided me with yet another interesting comparison between the
Amiga and the Mac.  Last summer I was babysitting a Mac.  I had always
wanted one, but could never afford it.  I was glad that I hadn't bought
one by the end of the summer.  There were a lot of things that really
annoyed me about it, but the worst was the way it behaved in warm weather.

If the machine was physically cool, I could use it for about an hour on
a hot day (I don't have any air conditioning).  Then it would start
getting confused and crash.  I could usually reboot it once or twice,
but it invariably crashed and, if I tried again, it would claim that
all of my disks were buggered.  This would invariably happen if the
temperature was above ~30 C (~86 F).  

Well, yesterday I was working on my Amiga 2000 from 9:00am to about 7:00pm
in a room which was ~40 C (~104 F).  It crashed a few times, but always
because of my bad programming (Oh, did I do THAT?).  It never had any 
trouble rebooting and never misread a single disk.  Maybe that 
everything-in-one-box design isn't such a great idea after all....

		Kevin Dooley