8 May
2008
8 May
'08
5:07 p.m.
--- "Marden P. Marshall" <mardy at voysys.com> wrote:
How's this for a horror story? A few months back,
I bought a really
nice IMSAI dual 8" floppy drive system from someone on eBay. It set
me back $2000.00. A couple of weeks later, it shows up at my doorstep
via FedEx ground in a disturbingly small box. I quickly open it up to
find that, other than a sheet of bubble wrap thrown on top, there was
no packing at all. And as a result, the drive had taken quite a
beating in transit, resulting in one of the drive doors being crushed
beyond repair (http://web.mac.com/mardy/iWeb/floppy.jpg). An
irreplaceable piece of computing history destroyed because someone was
too lazy to properly pack it.
From what I can see of it, the doors look a lot like
the doors on the
Calcomp disk drives used by DEC for the RX01. If you send me a
better
picture of it, or check the labelling on the drives, I might be able to
verify this. There is a fellow in town who quite likely has a scrap
drive -- I've seen a lot of the later RX02s that have been scrapped for
motors and heads in his shop.
--Bill