Re: Correct Use of Apple //c Handle

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Chad Choi Lin (chadlin@nyetcom.com) wrote, among other things:

: Why would they deliberately pick a disk drive that generates *more*
: heat? Well, during the design/test phase of the //c project the
: engineers at Apple realized they would have to make the computer stand
: up at an angle to keep it from lying flat on a desk or table. By putting
: air vents in the top and bottom sides of the //c case, air would
: naturally flow through the unit from the bottom up due to convection,
: creating a "passive cooling system" (there just wasn't enough room for a
: proper cooling fan). (...)

Sure, there's not enough room in a //c for a proper cooling fan, but I
doubt that it mattered to the Apple engineers.  Haven't you noticed that
Apple's engineers have *always* been dead-seat against *ever* installing a
cooling fan in any Apple computer predating the first modular Macintoshes?
It was merely an available option in the IIgs, not available from Apple
for the ][, ][+, ][e, //e, //c, Macintosh, Fat Mac, Mac Plus.......

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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