In defense of NASA: was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jun 2000

On Jun 9,  0:08, Zane H. Healy wrote:
...
  On June 9, R. D. Davis wrote: 
...
  >Do any computer preservationists seriously use
their systems to heat their
...
  houses in the
winter in place of a furnace? 
 Well, the room in the house with all the computers (well, except the ones
 living in the garage) has the heating blocked off, 
Same with my office/computer room; there are two machines and an old (and
therefore relatively power-hungry) hub that are on 24/7. It's a small room
and has the heating off and the two adjacent rooms have the heating turned
way down.

There's usually a machine in the garage on 24/7 in the winter; if ever it's
not on, there's a heater and/or dehumidifier there to protect the tools and
'puters.

...
  OTOH, most of that heat comes from 1 21" monitor,
and the real problem is
 the design of this house.  Even without the computer equipment on this room
...
  is considerably hotter than the rest of the house.

Funny how that happens, isn't it?  Mine's the same: upper floor, centre
room, just at the top of the stairs, seems to collect all the heat from
downstairs -- and has a 20" Sony GDM1961/VRT-19HA.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York