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From: hundt@anna.bellcore.com (Tom Hundt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDos revisited & Re: Standing a PC on Its Side
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Date: 13 Jan 88 22:45:28 GMT
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ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) sez:

|The ONLY orientation of a hard disk that is normally not recommended, is
|upside down, i.e. rotated through 180 degrees from its "normal" horizontal
|orientation, or "bottom" of bearing up.  Standing on either side, or on
|its front or back is NORMALLY perfectly acceptable.

Now, what about hardcards?  They stand the hard disk on its side, OK;
but what if the whole PC is up on its side -- now the hardcard is either
right-side-up or upside-down... perhaps the manufacturers should issue
warnings, eg. "Warning: when installed do not stand the computer on
its right side, only on its left". :-)  And what about the poor guy
who has TWO hardcards made by different manufacturers.  He may not
be allowed to stand his computer on *either* side :-)  (But, he *is*
allowed to turn it upside down.)


Disklaimer:  If it works for you, do it...

Thomas M. Hundt  /  BELLCORE Morristown NJ  / MRE 2L-350 x4955
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