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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