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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Educom and NeXT
Message-ID: <130113@gore.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 07:53:18 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.013521.28555@sjuphil.uucp>
Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Organization: Gore Enterprises
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/ comp.sys.next / dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter) / Oct 22, 1990 /
> 4.  The upgrades will evidently ship with dust filters that will
> extend the life of the OD drive by several years.  The third-party
> filters already available tended to raise the temperature inside
> the cube to unacceptable levels.  The NeXT filters do not, and
> are safe.

Unfortunately, it looks like this filter goes on the back of the drive.
In early cubes, where the fan sucks the dust through the optical drive and
then blows air out of the back, the filter will make sure that the dust
stays in the drive.

Next solution?

Jacob
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