7 May
2004
7 May
'04
8:50 a.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Way back, sometime in the mid to late 80's, when
this stuff was not cheap or
easy to come by, somebody gave me a dead Lapine "Titan" hard drive - I think
it was a 20meg drive. The drive just wouldn't spin up at all.
Ah, Tony Lapine.
I love the story and it doesn't suprise me a bit.
Certainly inside Lapine's engineering labs they had laminar flow hoods
with open drives. (I remember waltzing through their labs once or
twice)
and those heads flew so high that just vacuming out the chamber would probably
be fine :-)
just don't shut it off :-) as I recall most makers of small drives at
that time struggled with proper coatings to keep the heads from sticking
to the platter...
-brad