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From: jeg@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (John E. Girard)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Desktop Computer on its Side
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.180001.28450@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 17 Apr 91 18:00:01 GMT
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I've heard these arguements about on the side versus flat for years
and I'm sure getting tired of them!  In the last 8 years I have worked
with Tandy, Compaq, XT, AT, various clones and Suns in all sorts of
positions and as long as the ventilation is not impaired, it makes
not difference.  The guy who loses CMOS on-the-side clearly has a 
unique mechanical fault (or else there is a leak in his substrate :-)

Has anyone noticed that the same components go into tower cases as
go into desktop cases?  There aren't special motherboards for
"vertical markets" >:->


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