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> On Monday, 24 June 2019 19:59:21 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>> tempreature specs are temperature ranges thet thing is guaranteed to
>> work within
>> Ive seldom found kit that wouldnt work fine below zero.
>
> I had a Gateway Anykey keyboard that wouldn't work below about 10 deg C.
>
> As my flat in winter dropped to about 5 deg C overnight I had to put the
> gas fire on for an hour or so before I could get online.

You must have been "freezing" if you actually lived/slept in that flat.
There's a limit to what hot water bottles and many layers of blankets and
duvets can do to keep you warm in a room that is 5 deg C - especially for
the exposed parts of your body such as your head.

How warm did you heat it during the day, for it to cool down to 5 deg C
overnight?

I feel very cold if the room temperature drops even to 10-15 deg rather than
normal 20 deg, so 5 deg must feel very cold.

Occasionally when we ran out of coal and (bottled) gas at the same time
(faulty changeover gas valve and cockup with ordering more coal...) the
normal temp in our cottage (thick stone walls) would drop to 10 deg and I
had great difficulty getting off to sleep and staying asleep, even with a
panel radiator (the only remaining form of heating) left on overnight to
heat the bedrooms.


I often think that people in the days before central heating, when fires
were not kept in overnight and advice was to sleep with an open bedroom
window, must have been made of much sterner stuff than me ;-)

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