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Re: Is the NeXTStation Turbo vertically disadvantaged?

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From: Charles Herrick
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:09
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Dick Silbar writes
> Yesterday our group secretary received her new NeXTStation Turbo

dang, and us CC's are still running '030's!! WHIIIIINNNNNE!!

> (monochrome)

oh, well .. ok then :-)

[...]
> Rachel is one of those vertically challenged people (she's even shorter
> than I am) and after an hour or so of playing with the machine, her neck
> started getting tired with all that looking upward.  We had mounted
> the monitor on top of the horizontal slab.

Gee, I heard the TURBO's all come with a guarantee of weekly back-rubs  
from Jeff Martin in Developer Support! Have you filed with bug_next to get  
Rachel signed up?

> putting the slab on its right-hand side, standing up,
[...]
> QUESTION: is there any good reason why we _shouldn't_ leave Rachel's
> slab standing in its upright position? 

I've read in several places that hard drives need to remain in the same  
orientation in which they were formatted.

NeXT?

	chuck
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