Wanted: WD1002-HDD docs or Teac SD-520U help

On 24 Apr 2011 at 11:43, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote: Anything associated with Jugi Tandon, be it his 5.25" floppy drives or Tandon/JTS/Kalok is ultimately garbage. Jugi's approach was to sell for the lowest price. That we have vintage collectors who spend the time to rehabilitate old TM-100 floppy drives is amazing. In the 80s, I had a couple of friends who worked at the Tandon "R&D" facility on Coleman in San Jose (not terribly far from the Coleman Still). If you called to reach someone before 10 AM or after 4 PM, you'd be disappointed. A visitor was an excuse to have a 3 hour lunch. They never could tell me exactly what they did there. I suspect it was a way for Jugi to claim R&D tax credits. While prowling around the junk stores once, I ran into a pile of 4MB Tandon hard drives sitting in a corner of the warehouse. I asked about them, and the guy behind the counter said that I could pick one out for $5. His boss then showed up and said I could have one for $5 as long as I took at least 9 more for free. He was desperate to get rid of the things. I did end up going home with 10 drives, but scrapped the entire lot--most worked, but not reliably. --Chuck