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In article <728@cerebus.UUCP> dalea@cerebus.UUCP (Dale M. Arends X5706) writes:
>I am not sure how the add-in boards mount in the Mac II, but if they 
>are not supported at both ends I would not recommend standing the
>system on edge.  If the unit is situated such that the plug-in boards
>are parallel to the floor, and not properly supported, the angle of 
>force placed on the edge connectors may result in a heavily populated
>board not making good contact to the bottom row of connections in the
>edge connector.
>
>The hard disk, of course, is another possible problem.
>
>-- 
>		Dale M. Arends  (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
>		dalea@cerebus.fai.com
>		dalea@cerebus.UUCP
>		{...}!amdahl!cerebus!dalea
>
>The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
>They are entirely my own if they make sense and I disavow them if they don't.

Well, I wasn't going to post anything in response to the original question 
about side mounting since I figured lots of others would.  But this note needs
a retort:

	While the nubus cards are not supported at both ends, they dont need
it, they are very stable because they don't use edge-connectors.  The connector
on the card (male) has three rows of seperate (relatively thick) pins which
fit into three rows of matching holes in the female connector on the mother 
board.

The Mac II (at least mine) is absolutely pleased as punch to be on its side,
as long as you don't block the fan vents.

 do see one small unfortunate fact.  Because the fan is on the side that faces
down (since the floppies and hard drive are on the other end) and since it
blows outwards, the fan is now fighjting the natural convection cooling.  It
wouls be nice if this could somehow be reversed.


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