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From: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standing a PC on Its Side
Message-ID: <10720@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 88 02:28:59 GMT
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Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales)
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In article <463@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:

    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! :-)

Regardless of whether the hard disk would mind, "faceplate-up" is bad
because it allows foreign objects to fall into the floppy slots much
more easily than with other orientations.

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