Outbound Laptop; Was: Mac OS vintage

[jpero at sympatico.ca]

> Date:          Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:26:08 -0800
> From:          "Billy Pettit" <Billy.Pettit at wdc.com>
> To:            <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject:       Outbound Laptop; Was: Mac OS vintage
> Reply-to:      "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>                <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

> 
> Jeff Walther wrote:
> 
> Additionally, the Outbound Laptop is an interesting beast in that it 
> uses 2.5" IDE hard drives.   This is the first Macintosh to use an 
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> Jeff Walther
> 
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> 
> I'm not familiar with the Outbound Laptop.  What was the model number?
> 
> I do know that I was supporting Apple at Quantum in early 1994 and qualified
> an IDE 2.5 inch drive for their laptops.  It was one of the Blackbird
> series, 160 if I remember correctly.  Was made in Taiwan by Tatung as an
> ODM.  For a disk drive engineer, it was an unpleasant machine - the drive
> was mounted above the CPU chip, dumping all the heat into the drive.
> Quantum could never get it to meet Apple's temperature requirements with
> this handicap.  When Apple pushed hard, Quantum canceled the program and got
> out of the 2.5 inch business - no way could they be profitable with those
> temperature specs and Apple's pricing structure.
> 
> Billy

No wonder Q exited the 2.5" sector. :(

Btw, Apple was also wrong way to put HD over the element coil 
(aka CPU).  Heat is MAJOR HD enemy.  Shortens the life and kills
the platters.

Cheers, Wizard