Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!mystone From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Standing Mac II Base Unit on end: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Message-ID: <3f267750.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Date: 19 Oct 88 13:23:00 GMT References: <3434@cs.utexas.edu> <4215@polya.Stanford.EDU> <316@ivucsb.UUCP> <7043@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 29 > > In article <316@ivucsb.UUCP>, steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke ) writes: > > NO! NO! NO! > > The internal Hard Drive in a Mac II is mounted side to side, NOT fore and aft > as in a PC. Hard Drives, like the Seagate series, and probably others, > are designed the be mounted flat, or on one edge or the other. In a > Mac II, turning the system unit on either side would stand the Hard Disk > on its face or on its rear. Seagate specifically says that standing > one of their units on its face or its rear will VOID the warranty. Not true if you've got a Rodime. A friend has a Mac II and an internal Rodime 140, and he's got his Mac II Kickstanded (Kensington), and he's very happy with it. (And I'm very jealous because I've only got a measly 512K Enhanced...) ______________________________________________________________________________ Dean Yu | E-mail: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu University of Michigan | Real-mail: Dean Yu Computer Aided Engineering Network | 2413 Kelsey House ===================================| 600 E Madison "These are MY opinions." (My | Ann Arbor, MI 48109 employer doesn't want them. |========================================== Actually, they don't really care | what I think. But President | This space intentionally left blank. Duderstadt does...) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------