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0 pointskube-system6y ago0 comments

It also used to be very common for people to turn off their computers when they were done using them.

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Piskvorrr6y ago· 2 in thread

Yup. Those were power-hungry times, without deep sleep modes, or even useful hibernation. Heck, most machines then didn't even bother to reduce clock speed when idle.

olyjohn6y ago

"It is now safe to turn off this computer"

I remember when I saw my first ATX computer, and it turned itself off. That was cool.

buckminster6y ago

The CPUs used hardly any power so there wasn't much point throttling them. The rest of the computer and the CRT used loads though.

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