25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
8:08 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
Cannon advertised/sold a drive that would match the slimline description
you provided. It seems like I have several of them somewhere around here.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Hmm, vaguely.
Now who was it that did those slimline 5.25" drives (slightly less than
1/2 height) with the eject button (rather than handle) on the front? My
brain's trying to tell me those are BASF too*, but I could be wrong. I
know I have some in storage back in the UK, and they're not very
reliable either.
* Although maybe they're Epson; the system manufacturer that they came
from were as fond of Epson as they were BASF...
(Oh, and don't get me started on BASF ST506/412 hard drives - bleh!)
.
Exactly. I dealt with the 3.5" HD stuff. I
avoided BASF wherever
possible because the disks were so amazingly crappy. Unfortunately, the
competition wasn't much better.
Anybody else remember the 2/3 height 5.25" drives that BASF peddled in
1979? High DOA rate.