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From: jallred@bbn.com (John Allred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac as airline hand baggage
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Date: 26 Jul 89 19:53:21 GMT
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In article <2685@catalonia.sw.mcc.com> creemer@catalonia.sw.mcc.com (David Creemer) writes:
>Before I traded up to a Mac II, I flew many times between NY and Dallas with
>my Mac Plus.  I had "one of those commercially-available padded carry bags"
>which worked just fine, but with one small (actually large) problem: It was
>about 1 inch too tall to fit under the seat.  It was also too large to fit
>in an overhead compartment.  This led to an interesting scenario, which
>repeated, *almost to the word* on every flight I took.

My SE fit just fine in the overhead compartment of a United DC-10, and the
old 512 fit in the overhead bin of a Northwest 727.  However, I have yet
to see a space under the seat that would accept a mac.

Airlines order semi-custom interiors for their aircraft, so a mac
may not fit in, say, an American Airlines DC-10 overhead bin.
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John Allred
BBN Advanced Simulation
(jallred@bbn.com)

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