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In a message whose header requested responses BY EMAIL, Thomas Y.C. Woo
(tomfox@cs.utexas.edu) asks:

> I have a question regarding terminals. I have noticed that most
> terminals are always left on around the clock. I want to
> know if this is in fact better for the terminals ...

Since multiple "no" answers have been posted, I feel compelled to post
this one also.  Which is that *some particular models* of terminal are
best left on.  In particular, most of the terminals here at SoftQuad a few
years ago were HDS 200's, and their power supplies would fail regularly.
We did an experiment where we left all the terminals on all the time in
half of the office, and the power supply failures stopped in that half
and continued in the other half.  We felt this was sufficiently conclusive
to have all the HDS 200's left on all the time, and while the failures
did not quite stop altogether, they became a lot less frequent.

Terminals that do not have that sort of flaw, though, probably do better
to be turned off.
-- 
Mark Brader, Toronto		"But I do't have a '' key o my termial."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				   -- Lynn Gold

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