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From: fswrr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (rector walter r)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac temperature, fan, dust.
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.073819.9896@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 90 07:38:19 GMT
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In article <1990Aug24.131637.21844@cbnewsc.att.com>, straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) writes...
>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,
> 
>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.

This isn't exactly cosmetically apealing, but you could try tapeing an index 
card over the disk drive slot, so that the tape acts as a hinge. Just lift the
card when you need to insert a disk. Alternately, some of the security devices
that allow you to lock up your disk drive may also be able to keep dust out.

	-Reed