Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standing a PC on Its Side and a Mouse Question
Summary: don't stand hard disks on end
Message-ID: <356@mks.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 22:07:40 GMT
References: <4334@ecsvax.UUCP> <435@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 22

In article <435@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> In article <4334@ecsvax.UUCP>, burgin@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Burgin) writes:
> > (1)  Can someone tell me the pros and cons of operating a microcomputer
> >      standing on its side?
> I have seen equipment with disk drives mounted both horizontally and 
> vertically and have found no evidence that it makes a difference.
> 
> 					John

As long as you're talking about "vertically" meaning "on its side", I
think you're right.  However, I have heard that drives should not be
mounted "vertically" as in "with the little LED on top".  It seems that
gravity pulls the heads off the track if you do that. So, you can stand
your PC on its side, with the power switch on top (assuming you have
a normally-placed switch) with no problem. (You can also place it with
the power switch on the bottom, as long as you don't use the switch too
much.  :-)
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