Re: your mail

Scott Adams (scott@blue.misnet.com)
Thu, 7 Sep 1995 01:10:46 -0500 (CDT)

Sounds like the custom rackmount case we are working on for our desktop,
soon to be caseless, modems.. Fan blowing in on one side, out of the
other.. Sounds S I M P L E to me...

Scott Adams
Internet Solutions, Inc.

On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Russ Pagenkopf wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Carl Rigney wrote:
>
> > > I've found that the screen covering the fan on the back gets clogged.
> > > It'd be kinda nice if they'd have put the screen over the air inlets to
> > > keep the junk out instead of covering the outlet and trapping the junk
> > > inside the portmaster.
> >
> > I brought your question to the attention of our manufacturing folks.
> > It appears that unfortunately no one makes a long short filter that
> > would fit the front air intakes. They'll investigate whether a
> > different output screen might work better than the current one.
>
> Umm... Real stupid idea here, why not simply reverse the air flow through
> the machine? Suck the air in the back, push it out the front?
>
> Russ Pagenkopf (406) 542-0838 Internet Services Montana (ism.net)
> Best file compression around: "rm -rf /*" = 100% compression
>
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