16 Mar
2022
16 Mar
'22
7:01 p.m.
On 3/16/22 18:25, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
I was visiting a new thrift store and saw a disk pack
they had. I joked
that mine are just fun display/conversation pieces.
Do the giant drives suffer the same head crash issues that a bad zip disk
can do or are these safe if someone actually wanted to see what was on them?
I vividly recall a log by an operator who had a bad CDC 844 pack who
proceeded to destroy 5 drives and 3 additional packs. It was detailed
enough that it read like Gerard Hoffnung's "Bricklayer's Story".
https://monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Bricklayers_Story.htm
Be careful.