In article <esooter.726088820@yacht> esooter@ee.fit.edu (Eric Sooter) writes:
>In <C04tGK.12s@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:
>> If there is no problem with
>>leaving the mac up, is there a way to have it automatically reboot now
>>and again, or is that even necessary?
>
> My corporate experience with Mac II family is that leave them on unless
>you know there is a thunderstorm coming. Since we are in Florida, you would think that would be quite often, but in years of use (5+), I have had no baked
>Macs. I highly recommend a screen saver, i.e., After Dark, etc.
Because I have a sticky hard drive which often won't spin up if I shut my
machine down for any significant period of time, I leave my Mac IIcx on all
the time, and simply turn the monitor off at night. (I have a screen saver,
but I figure the best screen saver is turning the thing off.) I've had no
problems, but will probly replace the tiny (40MB) drive anyway.
As for rebooting, I just do a manual reboot every couple of days to clean
out the memory and get things sorted out.
And we almost never get thunderstorms in Vancouver.
:=:=> Derek K. Miller dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
Researcher, Alma Mater Society thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
