5 Dec
2000
5 Dec
'00
12:26 p.m.
-> > -> Yes-- The KALOK Octagon-20. The absolute worst
-> > -> MFM drive (and perhaps the worst rotating memory of
-> > -> *any* sort) ever manufactured.
-> >
-> > I think they are great storage devices. I use the cover
-> from one on
-> > my workbench to hold all the fasteners, etc. from whatever
-> I happen to
-> > be currently working on. I guess you could call this one
-> a HEX-A-GONE
-> > now.
->
-> Don't you mean OCT-A-GONE? :^)
No I meant HEX-A-GONE. But I guess it would depend on the computer it
was in last. I haven't had an occasion where I needed to use octal on a
PeeCee, just hex. d8^)
Bill