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- From: lhermens@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (Leonard Hermens - CS)
- Subject: Re: Hot Horror Stories....
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 23:00:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.193210.19421@athena.mit.edu> cstudly@athena.mit.edu (Todd Sterling Anderson) writes:
- >
- > I am a chemistry graduate student at MIT. Our lab and two others
- >have a Mac cluster of about 10 machines in a poorly ventilated room. The
- >average temperature is between 82-87 F. I am trying to convince my advisor
- >that it would be worthwhile to purchase an air conditioning system for
- >the room. I do not have any hard numbers or even good stories about
- >how heat affects Macs. For example, how much is the lifetime of the
- >computer affected by high temperature?? What components are most affected??
- >Please send any information directly to me at:
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- I would be more concerned about how heat affects ME in a room that
- warm... :-)
-
- I'm sure that any temp. above "nominal" (as specified by the vendor)
- can't be good for the machines.
-
- Leonard
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