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From: topher@cyb-eng.UUCP (Topher Eliot)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: My new AT disk trouble theory
Message-ID: <550@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 18:07:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 18:07:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 01:42:47 EDT
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Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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> I started digging around for a temperature specification from IBM.  In IBM's
> Hardware Announcements for the IBM AT (publication HA-36, August 1984) the
> following Technical Data for the system unit is listed:
> 
> 	Air Temperature:
> 		-System on  60 to  90 degrees F (15.6-32.2 degrees C)
> 		-System off 50 to 110 degrees F (10-43 degrees C)
> 
> Although I find these numbers rather hard to believe, IBM has so far not
> denied them (at least as far as I know).  Could it be that AT's were designed
> to sit in air conditioned offices?

After one is done being surprised at the first set of numbers, consider the
second set.  If you really obey them, you can't ship your AT during the
winter, or even during the spring and fall in the north (trucks get cold at
night).  And you can't ship your AT during the summer, or even during the
spring and fall in the south (trucks get hot in the sun).  And you can
never ship your AT by air (airplanes holds get cold).

Conclusion:  are these guys serious?

Cheers,
Topher Eliot                                           Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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