Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 >JD> The stove has to work much less than it used to, as I now heat 
 >JD> the shop mostly with electricity. (There's 6 or 8 computers 
 >JD> running all the time, along with a whole bunch of modems and 
 >JD> other miscellaneous pieces/parts. It draws 8 or 9 amps at 120 
 >JD> VAC even with all the monitors turned off.)
 > 
 > What are you doing with all of that stuff?  I have just the one 
 JD> Roy,
 JD>  I'm an ISP in the SE Michigan/NW Ohio area. 
Sounds like fun.  I wonder how I could set something like that up?  
 JD> In addition, we have had a BBS for 11 years. So there's the BBS 
 JD> machine and its 2 "nannys", the Internet server (eSoft's IPAD), 
 JD> the old Web Server, the new Web server, and my personal 
 JD> machines. The latter 2 get shut off at times, but that still 
 JD> leaves 6, plus a pile of modems. The latter draw less than 5 
 JD> watts/each, but I have nearly 40 of 'em. It all adds up.
I can see where it would!
 JD> It isn't enough, of course, so the stove keeps on cooking away. 
 JD> I hear the draft control clunking as I type this. :-)
Yeah,  in that part of the country I guess that would be the case.  It gets 
bad enough around here in the winter time,  I don't think I'd care to live in 
those parts...
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