2 Dec
1997
2 Dec
'97
1:40 p.m.
;-) Benedict Chong head-scratched, yawned, then typed:
On Tue, 02 Dec 1997 12:36:15 -0500, Roger wrote:
%Speaking of my T200, it can turn itself on and off... can a Wintel
box do
%that??? ;-)
I hate to waste bandwidth, but :
Yes, a modern Wintel box can turn itself off. Notebooks running W95
can shut themselves down. Desktops with ATX motherboards and
associated ATX-type power supplies can do the same. Quite useful,
considering the amount of time Win95 takes to shut itself down : you
start the shutdown process and go off without having to wait...
I hate to continue the waste [well, maybe not], but in my original post I
said "on _and_ off..." These machines cannot turn on by themselves
unattended by setting an internal wake-up time. My T200 can collect data
for months totally unattended if I need it to.
And it's got a nicer keyboard than modern laptops, too! (I can hit 110 wpm
on my T200 laptop keyboard -- can't do that on a StinkPad! ;-)
Should I mention which commercial laptops you can take on the Space
Shuttle??? ;^>
Have fun with the geezers,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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