[15179] in Hotline Meeting
are we trying to burn out the computers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dryfoo@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Apr 17 18:13:12 1993
From: dryfoo@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, css@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 18:13:01 EDT
Hello folks,
[I have been reporting this problem for more than a year now. This is
the last note on the subject I will send.]
Bldg 11 is not air-conditioned over the weekend. Back before The Big
Move, when we put in all these extra workstations (2 or 3 computers in
every office now), that probably didn't matter so much. It does now.
When I came into my office this afternoon to work, it was at least 90
degrees in here, with just the faintest whiff of burnt insulation and
ozone. That's in an outside office, with 2 windows, and the blinds
shut. The office with printer 'bud' in it was hotter, and quite steamy.
It is in the mid-60's outside. How hot is it going to get in here when
it's 90-something outside this summer?
Does this matter? Do we usually air-condition machine rooms just
because of force of habit (because the old-fashioned main-frames used to
need it, and now we're used to it)? or because we like spending
superfluous Institute money? Or is it because these workstations don't
like prolonged high temperature, and we don't want to destroy them?
When I first reported this problem, Phys Plant left the air-conditioning
running over the weekend for a month or two, until the change of
seasons. Then they went back to their old programming, which is how
things have been since.
If no one else is worried about burning out these machines, then I won't
either. I'm glad we've solved the budget problems so easily. As I say,
this is the last time I will report this to anyone.
-- Gary
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