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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: stand Mac II vertically?
Summary: Apple doesn't recommend it in the Mac II owner's manual...
Keywords: Mac II vertical mount
Message-ID: <3084@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 19:57:01 GMT
References: <1856@uhccux.UUCP>
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Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1856@uhccux.UUCP>, todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
> 
> I was just wondering why I have never seen a Mac II mounted vertically
> on the floor.  The thing takes up an awful lot of space on my desk and
> it is beginning to annoy me.  I'm tempted to banish it under the desk
> but am a bit hestitant to do so (I also haven't checked if the various
> cables are long enough to snake around the desk :-) since I have never
> seen any Mac II kept this way.
>

The Mac II owner's manual doesn't recommend this, although I see no 
real reason not to.  If you have an internal hard disk, I would think 
twice, though.  Apple's "crashless" hard drives just haven't proven themselves
to me yet.


Michael Niehaus
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