Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!vsi1!zorch!tolerant!bruce
From: bruce@tolerant.UUCP (Bruce Hochuli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Asked before: keeping computer vertical
Message-ID: <5560@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 00:50:13 GMT
References: <2209@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <[24d7961b:4706.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: bruce@handel.Tolerant.COM.UUCP (Bruce Hochuli)
Organization: Tolerant Software Inc., San Jose CA
Lines: 14

In article <[24d7961b:4706.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>Item 4706 (0 responses) by du at bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu on Wed 02 Aug 89
>>15:42
>>[Cliff Joslyn]    Subject: Asked before: keeping computer vertical
>
>If you do this, you'll not have any problems.  We have three machines in
>this orientation in our offices, and I have one at my apartment, and have
>had no problem with it.....
>
One possible exception to this happiness is some tape drives. I was told by 
a sales person that Teac 60 MB tapes do not like running on their sides.
Ordinarily I don't pay a lot of attention to sales people but I had toasted
another tape unit earlier and I know this sales person to be quite sharp.
Might be fear and superstition, but I keep my tapes horizontal now.