[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

John Summerfield summer at os2.ami.com.au
Tue Jun 16 07:50:26 WST 1998


On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Darrington wrote:

> 
> A few years ago, all equipment was _manuanfactured_ like this.  I wonder whose bright 
> idea it was to mount the fan back to front, and use the drives as filters anyway?  And
> why was the rest of the world dumb enought to follow suit?

I've had home computers back to Z-80-based systems (Tricky Dick Business
System-80, Osborne 1 among them).


None has had the fan drawing air into the cabinet. The nearest I've seen
was a machine built by Mica (in Canberra) that had no fan at all.




Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.



More information about the plug mailing list