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From: tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu
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Subject: Re: Laptops and bicycles, are they compatible?
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Date: 7 May 91 01:07:03 GMT
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In article <4524@ac.dal.ca>, osler@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>   I will soon begin commuting to university by bicycle. I am wondering 
>whether the road vibrations would damage my laptop (a T1000SE) if I were 
>to strap it to my bicycle rack. I've also thought about slinging the laptop, 
>in its carrying case over my shoulder, but I think that might be quite
>awkward and perhaps even dangerous. 
>

I have had a couple of problems w/ disks left in the drive during transport. 
The head bumps into the disk and damages it. NOTE: this problem is deadly when
the drive is running because the head scratches the disk severly around the
whole thing. Otherwise, as long as I remove the disk, my T1000SE has been next
to bulletproof during travel. And after, just for the hell of it, taking it
apart, the innards look sturdy too.
					sTEVE