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- From: K_LEPA@unhh.unh.edu (Kristen Lepa)
- Subject: Re: Hot Horror Stories....
- In-Reply-To: cstudly@athena.mit.edu's message of Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:32:10 GMT
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- Organization: University of New Hampshire
- References: <1992Aug25.193210.19421@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:50:09 GMT
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- In <1992Aug25.193210.19421@athena.mit.edu> cstudly@athena.mit.edu writes:
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- > 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:
- >
- > cstudly@athena.mit.edu
- >
- > thanks,
- >
- > todd anderson
- >
-
-
- I wrote to me boss and asked; this is what he wrote back:
- (he is Network Administrator for Computing and Information Services at UNH)
-
- From: Stephen J Kenny <sjk@kepler.unh.edu>
- Message-Id: <199208261717.AA21325@kepler.unh.edu>
- Subject: Temp
- To: k_lepa@unhh.unh.edu
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:17:09 EDT
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- >
- > The average temp in a room has never been shown to decrease
- > the lifetimes of MicroComputers, as they were built for
- > home use and as such had to operate in all kinds of conditions.
- > Of course, prolonged exposure to HUMIDITY is a different
- > story......
-
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- "Away..we go...so fast...." | sjk@kepler.unh.edu
- - Autosexual | s_kenny@unhh.unh.edu
- Be Bop Deluxe | Stephen J. Kenny
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