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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Setting a PC on its Side
Message-ID: <13000008@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 91 22:07:24 GMT
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/ c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:

> You can put your computer upside-down and the hard disk should still
> function perfectly (assuming it did before, that is).

   Time out!  Irregardless of your experiences, most hard drive
manufacturers specify that the drives will function at any angle
UP TO 90 degrees.  Upside down is a no-no.

   As to computers on their sides, I asked the Gateway techs about this
when I got my desktop AT.  The answer I got was that all the techs
their have their computers on their sides beside their desks with no
apparent harm.

Ken