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From: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac as airline hand baggage
Summary: works for me! :-)
Message-ID: <2919@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 20:39:37 GMT
References: <30351@cornell.UUCP> <2685@catalonia.sw.mcc.com> <43346@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: ckd@bucsb.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis)
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In article <43346@bbn.COM> jallred@vax.bbn.com (John Allred) writes:
-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.

My Plus fit fine (barely--there was probably not more than an inch of
clearance in any dimension) under a Northwest DC-10 seat, and fit in a
727/757 overhead bin (also NWA) without trouble.

Of course, that was before I got the extended keyboard....

-John Allred
-BBN Advanced Simulation
-(jallred@bbn.com)
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