NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/18436

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum Room Temperature for an Amiga
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:23:15 -0600
References: <crystal.723778083@glia> <[e-mail]> <crystal.723957180@glia>
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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In article <crystal.723957180@glia>, [e-mail] (Crystal) writes:
>>Jeff
>
> Overheating isn't my problem...freezing my computer is.  My furnace died,
> and I have a little space heater to keep the room within the recommended
> operating temperature. (i.e. about 50F, but this house is uninsulated and
> the temp drops rapidly to the low 30's once I turn that noisy thing off.
> *sigh*  Such is life... :>
>
> Crystal
>   ;>
    You shouldn't have any problem running your computer below 0C, just as
long as you don't use your floppy or hard drives.  I owned a lowly C64, and it
had no problems running below freezing, but the 1541diskdrive made even worse
noise than usuall.  Comparing a C64 to an amiga is a sin, but I would expect
that for just computing, there would be no problem.  I would avoid any hard
drive use... but if you don't mind a higher than normal floppy failure rate,
you'd probably be set working off floppy.
    Just don't let the computer heat up to room temp (25C) too fast in a
humid room, you'll get dew condensation on its surfaces, and surely this cannot
be good for any computer.  This is probably the worst thing that low
temperatures could do to your computer, outside of harddrive media failure
from a 'tight' harddrive read/write mechanism.

Dustan Doud