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Offline hamtronixTopic starter

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Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« on: December 04, 2007, 01:54:26 AM »
As I was looking at my torrent files it occured to me to ask:

How long has the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?

Personally, I ran a BBS for awhile on C64 so I know that sucker ran for months without being turned off...

And I rendered on my Amiga which would take many weeks.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had you A running?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2007, 02:03:45 AM »
My A3000UX has been running nonstop for a year and a half.  Before that, swap motherboards with my plain jane A3000 and that ran for two years.  Before that, back to the A3000UX which ran for 7 years nonstop aside from an hour here and there changing the hardware configuration.  I have not had luck running C64's for too long.  I blame bad power though.
One thing I recommend:  Get a GOOD UPS.  I have a bunch of APC ones that have failed and put out *lethal* power.  I honestly don't know what's better though.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2007, 02:41:14 AM »
3 years now, and running.

Saluditos,

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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2007, 04:15:41 AM »
Goodness, probably a couple or few years.  Now, are you talking without reboots or crashes?

I also ran a C128D non-stop for a few years running a BBS, only taking it down for updates.

One thing I found out about UPSs a loooooong time ago, true sine wave output is the ticket (and more expensive.)  600VA UPS for $30?  Stepped approximation, and it's hard on your components.  My SX-64 would not generate the 60Hz clock on a stepped-approx inverter.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2007, 07:13:55 AM »
I ran a BBS on my A1200 back in the mid 90's and I was overseas for 2 months in '96. The A1200 was at home, running the BBS with no problems at all :)
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2007, 08:21:18 AM »
Back in the 90's i had my A500 calculating fractals and it was on for a couple of months. nowadays i switch them off when i go to sleep  :-)
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2007, 09:45:39 AM »
2 weeks by accident :lol: no HD and I forgot it was on! :crazy:

I did hear rhumers that some leave it on to preserve it's life, like some people do with Hi-Fi equipment.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2007, 10:14:34 AM »
2 days, tops!  :-)
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2007, 12:21:49 PM »
In the 90's Had my A1200 running for 1 year straight. Now turn off when i don't use.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2007, 12:52:52 PM »
I would be too scared to leave my A4000 on for too long - even overnight. I'm so paranoid about it that I even turn it off at the mains when I'm not using it.

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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2007, 12:58:42 PM »
Me too moto,

The most I have ever used an A4000 straight is for about 10 hours, and I was with it all the time :oops:

I'm amazed to read that people have left their Amigas on for months or even years  :-o
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2007, 01:15:48 PM »
Quote

Ferry wrote:
3 years now, and running.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.


betatesting an OS without rebooting for 3 years? are you joking?
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2007, 02:11:30 PM »
My A1200 was running 7 years consecutively except that it was turned off when I moved, fuse went off, added new hardware or similar unavoidable action. The fan on my BPPC died meanwhile but I never noticed that and continued to work without fan (I didnt know it was dead) until I sold it in 2002 or so.

Nevertheless it ran at least 2 or 3 years without ever turning it off and seven years almost consecutively. Uptime was only few hours or days, though.



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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2007, 02:56:59 PM »
The longest time was with my a500.. It ran for days rendering a high res picture in real3d.
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Re: Whats the longest consecutive time you have had your Amiga running?
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2007, 03:10:22 PM »
 When I make the very 1st format in a 43Gb IDE drive. I want to make sure the drive was ok.

 So I make the hdtoolbox check the data on the drive. 10 days, nonstop!
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