Subj : Re: the Night Owl BBS
To   : codefenix
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Jan 03 2025 09:21 pm

-=> codefenix wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
 Ga> That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
 Ga> don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

 co> He said in his ad it's a Videotex system, which is vintage. If it's the
 co> same kind of Videotex I know, then it's basically the same thing as a
 co> Tandy/RadioShack Color Computer, but without the cartridge port on the
 co> side.

Ahhh, I must have missed that part.

 co> I could definitely understand not wanting to run something that old
 co> 24/7.

I suppose so, but sometimes a cycling on/off, with associated 
temperature changes, is worse for electronics than being in a steady ON 
state, where temperatures are stable.  



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