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Originally posted by: Info-IBMPC@USC-ISIB.ARPA
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 08:10:00 EST
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From:  Info-IBMPC Digest 

Date: 25 Oct 1984 15:32:48-EDT
From: mlip@NADC (Michael Lipczynski)
To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib
Subject: Transporting an XT

Does anyone have any advice on precautions to be taken in transporting
an IBM PC/XT?  I seem to recall that one should make sure that the fixed
disk heads are retracted.  If this is true, how does one do this (and the 
inverse)?  Are there additional precautions other than the obvious?
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!jabusch    Oct 29 10:12:00 1984



     IBM supplies a diagnostic diskette with the PC.  This diskette
has an option that you can invoke, which is described in the Guide
to Operations under the subject heading 'relocation'.

     This should take care of both floppies and hard disks.  Also,
it would be a good idea to re-insert the cardboard that originally came 
with the floppy drive.  It is meant merely to keep the heads from 
flopping around against each other in transit.

                       John Jabusch
                       Student
                       University of Illinois
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