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Re: Very old hardware...

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On 7/11/20 7:07 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 23:44:09 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> David Wright wrote:
>>>>> My 650MHz Pentium III (Coppermine) [...]
>>> consumes ~50mA idling, ~300mA when busy. [...] at 220V
>>
>> 11 to 66 Watt. That's unusual for a full size PC of that time.
>> I knew some which issued 10 Watts already by noise power and could
>> heat a small sized office room in winter.
> 
> Sorry, "idling" is probably not the best term—I extracted the line
> from a spreadsheet of power consumptions for a multitude of different
> electronics and electrical appliances. For this PC, it means switched
> on, but with only the NIC waiting for a wakeup call. So the disks, fan
> and, I assume, the CPU, are not running. The ability to wake it up is
> not something I currently use on this machine because of its
> convenient location; though after shutdown, I don't rush to turn off
> the wall switch.

The word you are looking for is probably "standby".

Mark

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Re: Very old hardware... Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-03 21:00 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 18:10 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 19:20 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 04:40 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 07:00 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 07:20 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:30 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2020-07-05 19:40 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 12:10 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 17:10 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:10 +0200
          Re:  Very old hardware... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-05 23:50 +0200
            Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-12 02:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-12 09:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2020-07-12 09:40 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 09:00 +0200

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