Subj : No Agenda Podcast
To : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Wed Sep 28 2022 10:20 pm
Re: No Agenda Podcast
By: MRO to Moondog on Wed Sep 28 2022 04:18 pm
> Re: No Agenda Podcast
> By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Sep 28 2022 08:29 am
>
> >
> >
> > The tool free design was a good idea, but standardizing screw head sizes
> > trying to keep screws a standard size was a better idea. Some cases had
> > combination of both flat head and phillips head screws, while Compaq was
> > of the first companies to move to star/ torx screws to keep knuckleheads
> > with butter knives out of their cases.
> >
> > Another source of the comlaint was from mainframe techs who were being
> > forced into working on desktops. The were used to working in more spacio
> > chassis, and it didn't require tearing half the system apart to pull a ha
> > drive. Retaining trays held in by one or two screws shaved time off of
> > replacing parts.
>
> oh i never saw torx screws in a computer case. i have seen all kinds of weir
>
> i have seen gigantic harddrives and huge fans. engineers took quit some tim
>
My Compaq Portable II from 1986 had torx or star head screws. Later on in
the late 1990's I saw they retained them in the Compaq Deskpro desktops.
They used green thumb screws to remove the side panel, and the thumb screw
had a flat head slot plus the torx slot.
Large format printers I've assembled and worked on commonly had hex screws.
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