23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
5:01 p.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
Why, CMI, of course! (evil wink)
I have a PC AT downstairs. When I first aquired it (recycling cage at
work) I opened it up to survey the situation, and found a CMI drive in
it. After cleaning out the dust bunnies I powered it up, and it booted
from the evil unit.
After that I gingerly re-assembled it, and I am waiting to post it on
eBay with a reserve of $10K USD.
No seriously, I was so suprised that the drive was working that my jaw
probably hit the floor. I had never seen a CMI drive and I heard the
story about how they ramped up production very quickly for IBM, and thus
threw the quality out of the window. This drive was either very lightly
used, or it was a very early model that didn't suffer from the ramp-up
in production.