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From: hbo@hub.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga placement
Message-ID: <457@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 20:00:24 GMT
References: <2947@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <708@nuchat.UUCP> <2383@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
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Summary: Me Too

In article <2383@umd5.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much,
>>but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK.
>
>I've had my external floppy on its side ever since I upgraded from an A1000
>to an A2000 in October.  It has had *heavy* use, and I have experience no
>problems at all.  I've had this external disk drive on my A1000 since 

     I had my 1000 mounted on it's side for over a year with nary a problem on 
the internal floppy drive. With that experience to go by, I had no nervousness
about setting my 2000 on it's side when I got it. I have had the same kind of
good luck with the new machine's internal floppy.

>Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU


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