Re: My mac IICX

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From: Enartloc Nhoj
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 07:34

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In article <1990Jan24.233634.4297@Neon.Stanford.EDU> evans@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John S. Evans) writes:
>I have a mac IICX at home, with Quantum's (wonderful) 80meg internal
>hard disk and 4 meg of RAM (I purchased this configuration, so it's
>Apple's standard stuff) and have Apple's color monitor with Apple's
>color card.
>
>(whereas the mac II seemed to have problems on it's side...)
>
>Now when I place the computer on it's side, it refuses to boot.  At all.
>No ping.  No neato tones.  No power.  It's as if the power switches (both
>on the keyboard and the back of the mac) have decided not to work.
>
>
>One person suggested that it was the ever-popular Quantum-80 problem, but
>I had thought that the mac powered up with that problem, and just wouldn't
>move the hard disk.
>

Was the Quantum formatted
on its
side?





-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu

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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
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