Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!tirith!ggk From: ggk@tirith.UUCP (Gregory Kritsch) Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 20 06:32:30 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Power... In-Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) References: <16148@cbmvax.commodore.com> <5917@crash.cts.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >No problem. The A500 is designed to be cooled by convection. When air inside I have to ask how the A500 box/motherboard was designed this way, because I remember reading a story about Apple designing the motherboard for one of their computers to be convection cooled. The article appeared in Byte a long time ago, and mentioned that it was an almost random drilling of holes and covering holes with tape that eventually got it to work. Another neat bit mentioned was they tried using a low-heat half height drive, with no success. However, the added heat from a full-height was sufficient to drive the convection currents to cool the thing. So I'm curious to know if there is a similarly humourous story on A500 design, or to know if Commodore "did it right" with some "scientific process" (for lack of a better term). >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy > ONLY 230 MILES TO GO -- Gregory Kritsch | University of Waterloo Fido: 1:221/208.11110 [1:163/109.30] | 1A Computer Engineering OCUG: ggk@tirith.ocug.on.ca |---------------------------- UUCP: ggk@tirith.UUCP | The University doesn't get ...!watmath!xenitec!tirith!ggk | a chance to censor me!