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Article #67Re: Turn on the Monitor THEN the Computer
From: George SKARPATHIOTAKIS
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:00
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On 1 Oct 1996, Navindra UMANEE wrote: > I remember when I was younger, going through the manual for my > Dad's C64 and coming across the recommendation to turn on the > peripherals first and then the computer (reverse order on powerdown) > -- no reasons given. Since then I have religiously followed these > instructions on all computers I used -- especially since most manuals > said the same thing (first the monitor then the computer and reverse > on powerdown). > > Of course I was always disgruntled and annoyed when almost all > so-called "technicians" invariably turn on the computer first and then Well now computers turn your your monitor on and off automatically when you power up and powering down. George Skarpathiotakis Don't believe in anything HTTP://WWW.CS.McGill.CA/~Ventura because evreything is true even the false things. How can this be true? Don't ask me I didn't do it. Fnord is everywhere. --- The Principia Discordia.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10fc8d,b07e003146ea7897 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fc8d,public X-Google-Thread: fc51e,b07e003146ea7897 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc51e,public From: George SKARPATHIOTAKIS <ventura@cs.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: Turn on the Monitor THEN the Computer Date: 1996/10/03 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961003111730.23245A-100000@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> X-Deja-AN: 186951733 references: <52rcb7$oo3@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: McGill University Computing Centre mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: socs.misc,concordia.general