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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 power supply (how good is it?)
Message-ID: <1521@convex.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:56:11 GMT
References: <1400@bnr-fos.UUCP> <89223.102821UH2@PSUVM> <7633@cbmvax.UUCP>
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Reply-To: swarren@eugene.UUCP (Steve Warren)
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In article <7633@cbmvax.UUCP> unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support) writes:
>In article <89223.102821UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>$In article <1400@bnr-fos.UUCP>, protcoop@leibniz.uucp says:
>$>
>$You shouldn't leave your power supply on for a single minute longer than you
>$absolutely must.  The A500 power supplies only have so much power installed
>$in them when they leave the factory, and when you've used that up, you're
>$finished.
>          ^^^^^^^ No Smiley Faces?
>$
>$It is far better to turn your machine on and off 20 to 30 times per day.
>           ^^^^^^ This is absolutely false!  There are a Lot of major
>corporations that would love to disagree with you about this one. Turning
>any electronic device on and off is extremely bad for it due to the power
>surges that occur upon power up. I for one am familiar with a case at
                           [...]
I think he was being incredibly sarcastic when he made those statements.
He probably thought that what he was saying was so patently absurd that
smiley faces would be redundant and reduce the impact of the humor.

I laughed :-).

That said, the poor fellow who asked the question is probably not an EE,
and probably legitimately needed an explanation, or he wouldn't have
asked the question.  Give the guy a break!

--Steve
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