OLD hard drives and enclosure need RESCUE! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Nov 1997

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	Can anyone give the hard drives and enclosures this fellow has a good
home? The price is certainly right ($10 + shipping). What they are is two
enclosures, each with a pair of Miniscribe 4022's (16 MB each, formatted)
in them, and I've also been led to understand that the enclosures contain a
SCSI-to-MFM bridge board.

	Please reply directly to the offerer. Thanks!

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:28:02 -0600
To: Bruce Lane &lt;kyrrin2(a)wizards.net&gt;
From: Tom Ray &lt;cyber(a)prismnet.com&gt;
Subject: Re: weird SCSI drives

I'll take you up on that offer. I hate to throw things out. Anybody wants
them, they can have both of them for the cost of shipping via USmail plus
$10. if that's too much, let me know. Only thing is, I don't even know if
the drives work.

tom

[snip]
 	In short, even if their box does contain a
SCSI-to-MFM bridge board,
they're pretty useless for much of anything current. HOWEVER -- do NOT just
throw them out! Sell them (at no more than $20 for the whole thing) to
someone who can give them a good home,  or donate them to whatever computer
charity is in your area.

	One other alternative is that I'm a member of a mailing list of folks that
collect "classic" (read: more than 10 years old) hardware/software. Those
drives might be just what some collector needs to get that old Osborne or
Altair of theirs going with a good hard drive. I can, if you'd like,
forward a 'for sale/trade' note to the list for you. If anyone's
interested, they'd contact you directly.

	Best of luck, no matter what happens.

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