Info on Amstrad 40095/A / DRMD20A12A MFM HDD - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2011

On  Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:19:24 +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
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  On 04/06/11 23:00, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
  Doh! We've all been there and done that :(

 I also managed to lean over a powered up CDC Wren-II/HH 5.25in 
 half-height drive while I was probing the DiscFerret's STEP line with my 
 scope.

 For those of you who have never seen a Wren-II/HH, they have a pair of 
 small-ish HDA interface PCBs on the back of the 'drive enclosure'. There 
 are a dozen or so metal pins joining these two boards.

 I wear a metal watch.

 No points for guessing what happened. 
Back in my high school days, a friend working on his relay computer science project laid
his metal watch band across a selenium rectifier and managed to cauterize all the veins
and such in his wrist - taught me to never wear jewelry and the like.

While on my military stint, a gentleman jumped from a truck catching his wedding ring on
the deck and completely deboning that finger - taught me to never get married.

	-> CRC