27th September 2004, 6:06 PM
Top loading isn't all that bad GR. Sure, front loading is a nicer design. It's also safer since it prevents all manner of stuff like dust, debris, and the occasional little kid's fingernail, from touching that little lense, but it's not all that bad. You just need to take a little more care of it. At the very least, the tray based loaders have that danger of someone snapping it off, but only idiots would ever have that happen to them. Anyway, that won't happen to the top loader... well it could I guess...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)