[geeks] State of IT

[Dave McGuire]

On August 5, Tim H. wrote:
> >   It was a 40MB MFM hard drive...Miniscribe 6053 if memory serves.
> 
> <homer>
> mmmmmmm.. MFM
> </homer>
> 
> of course, in those days hard drives were plug and play, either they
> were the ones your controller supported and they worked, or they were
> not, and did not.  None of this kinda works stuff with marginal IDE
> drives.

  Well, MFM at least had the advantage of having been *designed*,
rather than just thrown together in a cost-reduction effort.

         -Dave

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