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From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDos revisited & Re: Standing a PC on Its Side
Summary: its being done
Message-ID: <463@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 06:02:52 GMT
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In article <710@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> According to the paperwork from the manufacturers, for the several types of
> drives we have at work, there are only *two* out of the possible six
> orientations that are "forbidden".
> They are mounting it with the "faceplate" either on top or on the bottom.
> This makes sense as the head movement in such a position would be up and down!
> (ie fighting gravity!)

    That interesting. The AWS workstations manufactured by Convergent
Technologies and sold by Unisys and NCR had a lectern which had a
full-height 5 1/4 floppy and a choice of 5,10 or 15MB full-height
hard disk *both* of which were mounted pointing UP. This is to say
the front bezel points to the sky and the circuit card is facing towards
the operator. Humm, I guess CT was never told they couldnt do that! :-)
I beleive most of the disks were either Memorex or CMI.

					John


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