Thanks Bill, that was my guess as to why not to do this. Upon further investigation I found the manual on Apple's site and they advised against sitting it on the side.
Thanks! Beth > ---------- > From: Bill Rising > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:07 AM > To: MacUser Group > Subject: Re: MacGroup: RE: CPU stand and Beige G3 > > On 6/27/03 8:52, Beth Ernst wrote > > >After you've worked on Macs from the early Macintoshes on things start to > >run together. Age may be factoring in here as well. > > > >Does anyone know if it is ok to use a CPU stand that places the Mac on its > >side with a Beige G3 desktop? I seem to recall that there was one model of > >Mac that it was recommended you not do this because of a problem with the > >CD drive. I don't recall where I heard this or what model it was and it > >may have been a bunch of malarkey, or a figment of my imagination too. > > > > If it's just the CD drive, run an experiment. I certainly would have > doubts about rotatin a horizontally aligned CD drive where the CD rests > in place when loaded (rather than a slot loading drive). Of course, I've > never tried it. > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
