wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (01/24/88)
In article <463@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
The AWS workstations manufactured by Convergent Technologies and
sold by Unisys and NCR had a lectern which had a full-height 5 1/4
floppy and a choice of 5,10 or 15MB full-height hard disk *both* of
which were mounted pointing UP. This is to say the front bezel
points to the sky and the circuit card is facing towards the
operator. Humm, I guess CT was never told they couldnt do that! :-)
Regardless of whether the hard disk would mind, "faceplate-up" is bad
because it allows foreign objects to fall into the floppy slots much
more easily than with other orientations.
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