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From: jfm@sol.engin.umich.edu (John Francis Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Standing Mac II Base Unit on end:  is this safe?
Summary: yes yes yeS
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Date: 19 Oct 88 21:23:00 GMT
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In article <7041@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) writes:
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>NO!  NO!  NO!
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>The internal Hard Drive in a Mac II is mounted side to side, NOT fore and aft
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>as in a PC. Hard Drives, like the Seagate series, and probably others,
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>are designed the be mounted flat, or on one edge or the other. In a
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>Mac II, turning the system unit on either side would stand the Hard Disk
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>on its face or on its rear. Seagate specifically says that standing 
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>one of their units on its face or its rear will VOID the warranty.


I have had a Kensington stand on my Mac II for nearly a year now.
It contains an Apple 80 Meg drive which is a apparently a Quantum
and it has been functioning well.  I did need monitor and keyboard
extension cables though. Mind, having said this it means that my drive
is due to belly-up!!



John Mansfield, North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory,
2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143. Ph: (313)-936-3352.
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