On a lighter note, anyone ever had a Conner drive?
I've got a CFS425
that I pulled out of a 1996-model Acorn RiscPC600. It's nearly ten
years old and it's still fully functional. Now *that's* engineering.
I've got one. I don't know what the model number is; markings that
might be relevant are
0019329-9602X0MJS9
3701964-03
EX9MJS9
CFP1080E
SAG01
8AS051
G54332
9602
Q
SG3
It's an SCA drive, so I don't have any machines I can conveniently pop
it into to check whether it works, but it's probably about ten years
old (the chip datecodes I can see range from 9531 to 9543) and I have
no reason to think it less than fully working; it's in the "working
last time I checked" collection, not the "dead" pile.
I also have an HP drive that's a good deal older, weighs about what I
do, pulls something like 7A mains current (running - more like 12A
spike on startup), and holds all of about half a gigabyte - but it too
worked perfectly last time I fired it up, which was within the last few
years. I can't easily get to it or I'd cite its model number.
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