Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

On Friday 23 December 2005 03:05 pm, Peter C. Wallace wrote: No, these were single-platter setups, typically one fixed and one removable. I had one repair to look at that was basically a "Wang Word Processing System" or somesuch, and there was a mini that I tried (not very successfully) to deal with called a "GRI" -- the company was out of business when I came into the picture in 1985, and they had a guy who would come in to find exactly 5.06 volts across one specific capacitor to make things work right. That had four racks, and drives in two of them, and it was a much nicer setup than the one I'd encountered besides, which was a "pedestal" of some sort, took two of us to move it. The rack-mounted units in the mini were in drawers that you could pull out, and I think tilt down at full extension. I remember one time they started having all sorts of trouble with that machine, and it turned out that the temp in the machine room had gone up by a few degrees, due to a bad belt on the outside portion of the a/c that was slipping. Fussy, that thing was! -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin