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|    Robert Wolfe to Dumas Walker    |
|    Re: low power consumption pc'    |
|    10 Sep 20 18:28:45    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:261/20 ab7d2f16       REPLY: 4243.carnival@1:2320/105 23bbae90       TZUTC: -0500       On 07 Sep 2020, Dumas Walker said the following...                DW> > I want a PC like a mac mini to run my bbs so i can turn off the pc i run        DW> > bbs on during the summer power emergencies in california.        DW>         DW> I run one on a Raspberry Pi. I also run one, this one, on an UP Board        DW> sbc. Both put off very little heat, which help keep the room cooler        DW> during the Summer, too. The UP Board is more powerful than any desktop        DW> PC I ever had, and runs on an intel chip so there are few        DW> incompatabilities. Only issue would be if you require a CD-ROM drive        DW> onboard. :)              Yeah, I enjoy firing up my Pi from time to time, too :) Not really sure that       I want to use it for mainly, though.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/07 (Linux/64)        * Origin: New Mystic BBS (1:261/20)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 114/705 120/340 123/131 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/101 275 424 426 452 664 240/5832 249/206 317 400 298/25       SEEN-BY: 305/3 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 261/20 116/18 261/38 712/848 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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