17 Feb
2003
17 Feb
'03
1:43 a.m.
At 09:01 AM 2/17/03 -0500, Bob Shannon wrote:
Also HPIB disks are VERY common, and also VERY
reliable. Ask on this
listy and you will hear stories of
CS/80 drives from HP being underwater, thrown into dumpsters, and other
suffering forms of abuse without
any problems at all.
Bob isn't joking. The first HP-IB dirve that I bought was sitting in plastic tote bin
half full of water. The drive was 2/3 covered but I bought it anyway (a whopping $2!). I
dried it out for a couple of days and plugged it into a 9000 220 and it booted right up!
Since then I've found that that's pretty normal with the HP stuff. I've bought
plenty of it that has been underwater, dropped down oil wells (HP-15C) , left sitting in
fields in the weather for months, thrown out of four story windows into onto pavement and
just about any other abuse that you can think of and most of it worked. I love the quality
of the older HP stuff!
Joe