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.
