ted@idunno.UUCP (Ted Park) (08/21/89)
At the company where I work we have around 16 Mentor nodes (essentially DN3000 nodes) as well as around 20 nodes that we purchased from Apollo. Some of these nodes are sitting on the floor on edge - the nodes with Mentor stickers on the front sit with the tape drive towards the floor, so that the vents on the side don't get blocked, while the Apollo nodes sit so that the small light plate is upright, and the tape drive or floppy drive is in a position that media can easily be inserted. The CE from Mentor insists that vents up is the "correct" way, although you can flip it over if you get the optional stand. The Apollo people claim that the media end should go up. Although it makes most sense to set the node down flat on the desk where people can't kick it over (yeah, I guess that the drive wouldn't get jarred as badly if it was nearer to the floor if the node got knocked over) I'm curious about what other sites do. Yes, I know it's trivial and not particularly relevant, but inquiring minds still wanna know. . . If you have nodes sitting on the floor, which end do you have up??
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (08/23/89)
Your Mentor person is correct. The DN3000 is designed to stand on its end with the tape/floppy at the top IF THE NODE IS MOUNTED ON THE FLOOR STAND. If the node is not mounted on the stand, you are blocking the air intake vents on the left side of the system unit. If the node is mounted on the stand, it's very hard to kick it over; but mostly you want to use a floor stand to avoid blocking the vents, overheating the unit, and sucking dirt into the system. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)
shull@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher E. Shull) (08/24/89)
In article <10@idunno.UUCP> ted@idunno.UUCP (Ted Park) asks how folks
orient their stand-on-end DN3000's.
We bought a bunch of floor stands, figuring that Apollo probably
designed them to hold the systems right side up. If you don't want
to pay for the stands, you can still put the vents at the correct,
floorward side by sticking a couple of bricks or a thick phone book
under the system unit, carefully avoiding the vents. We only did
this when we could also lean the top or bottom of the system unit
flat against a wall or pedestal desk.
We eventually bought the floor stands because I was afraid that some
graduate student would see the phone book only part way under the
system and "fix" it.
-Chris