I've been told these babies are toast in 1 hour. Well, they lasted Eight days more than I feared. Thanks to all who replied. John A. and thanks to the Guys at WRPI who told me about that 1401 back in 1980... -----Original Message----- From: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu [mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of John Allain Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:30 AM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Freebie alert: CDC 9766 SMD drive Dumpster-Dive alert from a Newbie. Two Control Data Corp 9766 Storage Module Drive units to go ** FREE ** to a good home in the tri state (New York, New Jersey, Conecticut this time) area. These are the Classic drives from the late 70's that everybody at the time is probably familliar with ( Open the top like a clotheswasher, lock in a removable 300MB platter array, push the start button & go ) I don't remember the DEC designator for this but I'm positive that Many companies re-marketed this as their own component to their MiniComputer offerings, they were everywhere, I used one in in 1982, but I don't need three now. These two were taken from a system deactivated just recently. One of the diskpacks was marked something like "Backup Nov-1997" so it's a pretty good guess that everything was working. They are sitting safe in an office right now, but Pls. act fast if you're interested. FYI JEA (John Allain)