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From: cjeff@ghoti.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac hard disks/orientation
Message-ID: <1991May16.134953.28442@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 13:49:53 GMT
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In article <2772@kielo.uta.fi> ccjapu@kielo.uta.fi (Jarmo Puntanen) writes:
>In article <hoepfner.674155244@heawk1> hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes:
>>
>>   Laying any Mac II, Mac IIx, or Mac IIfx on its side is dangerous!  
>>This is because the hard disk is mounted with the read/write arm  
>>mounted sideways.  This means that when you lay the Mac on its side 
>>the read/write arm is forced to move against gravity.  This wears the 
>>arm out quicker.....
>
>To state that laying *any* Mac II or IIx (or any Mac for that matter)
>on its side is dangerous is simply not true.
>Quite a number of those machines have Seagate hard 
>disks, whose installation manual (Universal Installation Handbook,
>Seagate Publication 36042-001, Rev D.) reads (p. 12): "The drive may be
>mounted horizontally ... or on either side (egde)."

Am I the *only* person who remembers that the reason Apple told us not 
to put Mac IIs up on end was that it defeats the cooling design?

--Carl Alexander 
News Editor, The Active Window 
cjeff@ghoti.lcs.mit.edu