Mark Trowell wrote
> Subject: Fire! Fire!
> Beware of failing to get your dumb terminals serviced and switch them off at
> night.
>
> We have just had a near miss. One of our DTs went up in smoke. Luckily it
> caught fire during office hours, if not we might well have gone paperless.
> :(
>
> Mark
We used to find it was worth switching the screens off, but leaving
the system unit on. The screens are the main source of fire hazard,
as they have high voltages; the system units were better left on for
reliability, switching them off and on used to upset them!!
Mike Wells
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