25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
6:35 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Hmm, vaguely.
Now who was it that did those slimline 5.25" drives (slightly less than 1/2
height) with the eject button (rather than handle) on the front? My brain's
trying to tell me those are BASF too*, but I could be wrong. I know I have
some in storage back in the UK, and they're not very reliable either.
* Although maybe they're Epson; the system manufacturer that they came from
were as fond of Epson as they were BASF...
(Oh, and don't get me started on BASF ST506/412 hard drives - bleh!)
Exactly. I dealt with the 3.5" HD stuff. I
avoided BASF wherever
possible because the disks were so amazingly crappy. Unfortunately, the
competition wasn't much better.
Anybody else remember the 2/3 height 5.25" drives that BASF peddled in
1979? High DOA rate.