7 Apr
2010
7 Apr
'10
4:26 p.m.
If I foudn a box of old floppies, I would want to open
them and at least
look at the surfaces before deciding whether to buy them.
I wouldn't buy them
:P
How would you feel about a NIB QIC tape? WOuld you
assume the belt was
still good, and that it hadn't stuck to the tape and was going to pull
the oxide off? Becuase I sure wouldn't. How would you feel about a NIB
HP97 calculator. Would you assume the card reader roller needed replacing?
Yes and
yes and yes. But this is a disk pack! I've not yet heard of it getting flaky or
gooey...
As somebody who uses these old machines and
peripherals, I would want a
pack that I could use, not something to look nice on the shelf. So yes, I
would prefer something that was tested to something that was NIB.
Ok, next time I
offer a used - and tested - pack.
Mind you, I have plenty of 12 sectore RK05 packs
already... And a couple
of alignment packs.
A couple of alignment packs? I have none :-( And I'm just
fighting against some rk05 drives. Have a
F drive hooked up to a pdp8/e. That servo system adjustments and problems around that keep
me
unhappy... Anyone an idea about incomplete head retraction? If I won't find a
solution, I'll post
that separately.
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