19 Mar
2001
19 Mar
'01
3:19 a.m.
I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card.
From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface.
In a message dated 3/19/01 11:16:40 AM Central Standard Time,
jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes:
<< Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own
special controller prior to switching to SCSI?
Jeff
I've got one better, do you remember the old
Bernuolli removable disk
drives,
the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well,
there used to be a
serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab
and all
of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous
"thump" type explosion and out
from
the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish
smoke. After nervously
pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can
sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the
inside
of
the top cover there would be this spectacular
meteor-crater shaped carbon
mark
where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the
inside of the case.
Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)
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