In message <002301c6071c$5f7946a0$6401a8c0 at DESKTOP> "'Computer Collector Newsletter'" <news at computercollector.com> wrote: I just find it weird.. never in a million years would I have bought a Quantum (well not after the Fireball debacle anyway), yet I ended up with a Quantum-designed drive in the end, albeit with a Maxtor badge. It isn't as old as the DeskStars I've got dotted around (there's a 20GB in my desktop, and another 15GB in the server) but it's been in use 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for the best part of three years and hasn't missed a beat yet. If Maxtor still made them, I'd buy another two - I've got a pair of HDD caddies that are just begging to have drives installed in them... Later. -- Phil. | Acorn RiscPC600 SA220 64MB+6GB 100baseT philpem at philpem.me.uk | Athlon64 3200+ A8VDeluxe R2 512MB+100GB http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | Panasonic CF-25 Mk.2 Toughbook ... I Had A Life Once, Now I Have A Computer

On Thursday 22 December 2005 06:14 pm, William Donzelli wrote: Somewhere in my storage unit I have service data for one of those, is anybody interested in that enough to make it worth my while to dig it out? No promises as to when, but... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

On Friday 23 December 2005 01:19 pm, William Donzelli wrote: Not IBM. Control Data, maybe? For some reason "Model 40" comes to mind. It's a weird format, very large pages, 11 inches is the _shorter_ dimension. I also remember running across a terminator for one of those, too. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

On Friday 23 December 2005 03:05 pm, Peter C. Wallace wrote: No, these were single-platter setups, typically one fixed and one removable. I had one repair to look at that was basically a "Wang Word Processing System" or somesuch, and there was a mini that I tried (not very successfully) to deal with called a "GRI" -- the company was out of business when I came into the picture in 1985, and they had a guy who would come in to find exactly 5.06 volts across one specific capacitor to make things work right. That had four racks, and drives in two of them, and it was a much nicer setup than the one I'd encountered besides, which was a "pedestal" of some sort, took two of us to move it. The rack-mounted units in the mini were in drawers that you could pull out, and I think tilt down at full extension. I remember one time they started having all sorts of trouble with that machine, and it turned out that the temp in the machine room had gone up by a few degrees, due to a bad belt on the outside portion of the a/c that was slipping. Fussy, that thing was! -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

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