1 Feb
1998
1 Feb
'98
11:57 a.m.
I used a Micropolis 60 Meg from 1988 to 1992 or so as my main drive.
I still use it in a couple of machines when I need to do 8086/80286
stuff and don't have a drive.
I think it's fast and reliable for its vintage. Never had a problem,
UNLESS, you try to PARK the drives, in which case you can get them
interminably stuck....
Don't "Park" these later drives, they park all by themselves...
-Mike
Barry Peterson wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:17:51 -0500, you said:
Barry Peterson wrote:
I had it for >3 years, he had it for two more, now his grandson has
it... So far, so good.
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Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
I sold a drive (IIRC, a micropolis 85MB) that would spool up and then
do a couple of "ching-chings" and worked fine. I tested the livin'
daylights out of it; no problems, but many folks told me and the
fellow I sold it to that it would die immediately.
So how long has the guy you sold it to been using it? (I've had bad
luck with the Micropolis 40MB drives in some AT&T 3B1s).