[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

[HILL Walter]

I spent several glorious years using a variety of TRS-80 (Z-80 based
machines) which didn't have fans. I suspect that this was more to do
with I) minimising power consumption from the external power supply, ii)
the North American origin where it probably doesn't get above 90'F and
iii) keeping the engineering (and cost) down.

It was my experience that on summery Perth days the machines were apt to
re-boot themselves when they got warm. Consequently we always had a
table fan pointed into the back end of them to keep them cool.
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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	John Summerfield [SMTP:summer at os2.ami.com.au]
	Sent:	Tuesday, June 16, 1998 7:50 AM
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

	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
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