[rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale atbuy.com)

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Fri May 16 16:03:01 CDT 2003


Dave McGuire woke up from a nap and croaked ...
> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 04:53 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> >
> > I never hoped to meet people who could remember stuff about "30 meg 
> > old"
> > drives, type numbers, what standards they comply to and god DAMD 
> > GEOMETRY settings!
> >
> > I did fear it though :-D
> 
>    Oh shit, that's nothing...You must be a young'n!  Would you like to 
> hear about the DEC RK05, which was a 2.5MB removable 14" cartridge hard 
> drive introduced in the early 1970s? ;)

Ones!  You had _ones_!?  When I started we only had zeroes!

-Shel



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