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Article #28213Re: stand Mac II vertically?
From: Michael Thomas Niehaus
Date: Tue, 17 May 1988 19:57
Date: Tue, 17 May 1988 19:57
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In article <1856@uhccux.UUCP>, todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>
> I was just wondering why I have never seen a Mac II mounted vertically
> on the floor. The thing takes up an awful lot of space on my desk and
> it is beginning to annoy me. I'm tempted to banish it under the desk
> but am a bit hestitant to do so (I also haven't checked if the various
> cables are long enough to snake around the desk :-) since I have never
> seen any Mac II kept this way.
>
The Mac II owner's manual doesn't recommend this, although I see no
real reason not to. If you have an internal hard disk, I would think
twice, though. Apple's "crashless" hard drives just haven't proven themselves
to me yet.
Michael Niehaus
UUCP: ..!{uunet,pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: stand Mac II vertically? Summary: Apple doesn't recommend it in the Mac II owner's manual... Keywords: Mac II vertical mount Message-ID: <3084@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 17 May 88 19:57:01 GMT References: <1856@uhccux.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 18