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On Sun, 17 Aug 97 14:26:56, Paul Khoury wrote: >On Thu, 14 Aug 97 18:07:03 +0300, Dominique Pivard wrote: > >>On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 at 10:22 AM you, "TROTTIER, Tom" <ttrottier@shl.com>, >>said: >> >>>I am thinking of upgrading too.. some questions: >>>1. Does the plastic wrap resemble Saran wrap? Would several layers of >>>Saran wrap work as well? 2. Would the plastic wrap cause any overheating >>>or reduced component life? >> >>I have no idea what "Saran wrap" is, but you can easily see for yourself >>what the original plastic wrap looks like by taking the drive off your >>TP701, which is very easily and safely done (after all, the TP701 drives >>were designed to be removable). >> >Saran wrap is a plastic wrap for foods. > >>I suppose IBM wouldn't have wrapped the drives if it could have damaged >>them. It probably also protects the drive against dust and oxidation. >> >Or electro-static, perhaps. > >>At one time my TP701 acted as my home Internet server and was switched on >>24 hours a day for more than 5 months. Neither the TP701 nor the drive >>itself appeared to have suffered from any kind of overheating. >> >Long time. I had my ThinkPad on for like 1.5 weeks straight, and my Linux server >for about 2 weeks, all the time, w/ external SCSI peripherals. > Opps, this came from an old archive. Please ignore and delete this. Sorry for the un-nessecary bandwidth. Regards, -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 24 Processes with 126 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 2h 57m 53s 570ms.