Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Turning micros on their side
Message-ID: <18284@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 89 03:05:13 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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->Is there, or should there be any problem turning computers on their
->side?  I have a z-248 with 2 hard drives, and I need to know if
->turning it on its side will puty too much work on their mechanisms, or
->any other adverse effects, like the boards falling out of their slots,
->and crashing into each other, obliterating the boards, the computer,
->the R.O.K., all of Europe, the world, and even Life, The Universe, and
->Everything???

-I can't warn you strongly enough against turning your computers on their
-sides.  You will permanently damage EVERY SINGLE semiconductor device
-in the systems.  You see, by rotating the computer you have effectively
-changed the normal 110 lattice structure to a 011 lattice structure. 

What nonsense.  Don't you realize that all your electronic devices get
turned on all their sides, every day?  You can't avoid it; the world
rotates, and takes your computer with it.  (Except at the North and South
Poles, of course, where they just spin in place.  This does cause
difficulties, because the bound electrons tend to change their spin states,
or "unwind", and get added to the conduction band.  This alters the
effective doping level of the semiconductor materials, and gives rise to
dopey behavior.)

-Powering on any device in this configuration will not only cause damage
-to the semiconductor device, but, according to Carver Mead:
-   "...will cause skin to melt and eyes to explode.  In short
-    everybody dies."
-In summary, unless you want to cause world destruction, please do not
-rotate your computer equipment.

More of the seductive, Luddite teachings of the Flat Earth Illuminati.  Or
of vacuum tube salesmen.