10 Nov
1997
10 Nov
'97
4 p.m.
I dunno...I dropped one off my desk (2 1/2 ft), and it survived fine.
I dropped a 1.2 GB HDD (WD, I think) BRAND NEW off my desk onto a carpet,
and it died (couldn't have been a ST-157, no-o-o-o.) Depends on how it
bounces, I guess.
Anyone wanna try this with a 9 gig, in the interests of science?
Now.... just for fun, try to get a modern PC, drop it
on your toe (A
sacrifice for science) and then watch it break into DOZENS of piece. Chip
out of socket, RAM out of socket, motherboard out of case, power supply out
of case, HDD crashed, disk drive not in a working condition, CD-ROM drive's
laser swears that there's no disk in. They don't make 'em like they used
to!!!
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From: Jeff Beoletto <jbeolett(a)ssi.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Classic Computer Rescue Squad
Date: Saturday, November 08, 1997 6:28 PM
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
up
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Hotze wrote:
> At 23:18 11/7/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >I am conviced that a lot of people (probably not on this list)
wouldn't
> >know a well-designed or well-built
computer if it was dropped on
them...
Naturally not, they'd be too busy limping around howling.
I DID THAT! I DID THAT! I successfully managed to crush Jeff Beoletto's
(One of my friends) toes with
a PDP-11/44. We were trying to move it sideways. BTW, his foot healed quite well. And he wasn't limping around, he
was curled up in a little
ball on the floor, cussing a blue streak :) A week ago we were moving
the
RA81, and I almost did it again...
Seeing how it was me that Dan managed to drop it I can agree to
the limping, and ironically enough it's the same foot that I had broken 3
times in the month before he crushed it. And just yesterday hauling a pc
down to our storagge office on the 5th floor I tripped and fell down the
steps and have just re-broken that very same ankle. Computers are
hazerdous to your health. =+)