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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac temperature, fan, dust.
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.131637.21844@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 13:16:37 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <6910N3w162w@tosh.UUCP> starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) writes:
>carlo@osprey.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) writes:
|| I wonder if there is anything one can do to improve the cooling and reduce
|| the dust intake in a Mac (a IIci specifically).

|| Since the largest hole in the case is the floppy drive hole at the front,
|| I wondered what the floppy heads felt about this, since they probably have
|| accumulated as much dust as everything else (maybe this has some relevance
|| to the floppy read/write failures people complain about every once in a
|| while??).

I would assume that the floppy drive does not generate any significant amount
of heat.  Some, of course, but probably not a LOT.  For instance, the Plus'
floppy survived OK without fan-forced cooling.  Soooooooooo:

Why not enclose the floppy in an airtight container (probably best left to
Apple to design it right into the original product, but you don't have that
option), and that way, no dust gets sucked in through the floppy.  Doesn't
fix the problem of general dust, but that's more easily dealt with.
-- 
Richard Straka                  AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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