Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Power... Message-ID: <16452@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 18:18:00 GMT References: <5917@crash.cts.com> <16300@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1910@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article <1910@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> terry@csd.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) writes: >In article <16300@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >> ...what you really want is some flat and wide so that you can maximize the >>case area that can contain the holes, the top and bottom of the case. >> ... C= has been building this kind of >>computer since the VIC-20, and they're good at it. >Dave, > Does this mean that a tower configuration of the A3000 is out of the >question? or not a good idea? It means that a tower machine should not be cooled by convection. The excerpt above was in regard to why the A500 has no fan but other systems do. If you want convection cooling, you have to work around the physics of convection -- basically, that hot air rises. If you have a fan, you can force air to move in the directions you choose, not just "up". > * Terry Cudney Amistosa MicroWare 9 Durham Street, LONDON, Ontario, N5Y 2H9 -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "I can't drive 55" -Sammy Hagar