Ah! Humor. I had to look it up in Miriam Webster's to be sure.
Pardon my density. Pun intendted.
Regards,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Don Maslin
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:07 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: 5.25" drive identification
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
I guess you missed the irony.
I think it may have been mutual, Jeff.
- don
Yes. It is rudimentary and almost totally useless.
If you've
handled
as many hundreds of drives as I have, you'd know
that color, shape,
size, door-type, whatever, has no bearing.
I mean, you can guess from experience and be right more often than
not,
but if a customer called me by phone and described a
drive, I wouldn't
venture to say 40 or 80 track, high or regular density etc without
testing the drive myself. Barring a test, a model number would be the
only other way I'd swear to a drive's capacity.
Regards,
Jeff
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