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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Finishing up YAIP (Yet Another Input Handler), Need info.
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Date: 12 May 88 08:45:06 GMT
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>	How about a screen dimmer? To do this generally would be pretty
>	hard (how do you dim a HAM image), but it'd be easy to instead of

	I thought of that, but after seeing burn-in on many an office
CRT, I decided that if the guy leaves his computer for that long a period
of time, it would be better to blank the screen.  My best solution is
actually on an IBM-PC (don't laugh!)  This PC is used as a database
storage and retrieval system for a telemetry system and thus is 
left on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  To prevent 
employees from thinking the machine is off, I wrote a screen saver which
'pong'd the date and time around the (blank) screen.

P.S.  You might wonder about the harddrive.  We've got a Bernoulli (sp)
Box connected to it ... 80 Meg Winchester + two 20 Meg cartridges.  The
Winchester has been ON 24 hours a day for the last two years!  ok .. subtract
maybe a week total for maintenance.  No power failures though, the whole
system is running under a UPS.

					-Matt