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

[Jeffrey Nonken]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 17:03:01 -0400, "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>
When I was your age, we had to carve our own ICs out of wood!

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