[geeks] State of IT

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Aug 5 21:54:54 CDT 2002


On August 5, Ethan wrote:
> >   Well, MFM at least had the advantage of having been *designed*,
> > rather than just thrown together in a cost-reduction effort.
> 
> And you could hook a MFM disk to an RLL controller to get a little more
> room :-)
> 
> Oooo. And the Perstor controller.
> 
> I don't miss MFM.

  Me neither.

> It is just a shame that Fibre channel SCSI isn't on all of the modern
> PeeCee systems... making FC disks affordable.

  Huh?  FC disks are SUPER cheap, man.  About a month ago, I spent
$150.00 on five 35.4GB FC drives.  FIVE!

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                     "I haven't worn pants in 14 months!"
St. Petersburg, FL                                   -Pete Wargo



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