The MiniScribe brick story is told at: http://chmhdd.wikifoundry.com/page/MiniScribe+files+bancruptcy The apocryphal tale is that when the Maxtor President visited his then recently acquired MiniScribe facilities he was shown buildings 1,2, 3, and 5. When asked what happened to building 4 he was told, "we shipped it brick by brick." Tom -----Original Message----- From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 2:50 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Cc: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Miniscribe "bricks" (was Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?) Never heard the story. Can someone oblige? I don't know about disk drives, but there are lot of scam stories. One minicomputer manufacturer (sorry, don't remember who, but I think it was on the 128 belt) was shipping empty cabinets, in order to meet projections (I dunno if they couldn't afford the parts to build the guts, or if their manufacturing division couldn't build the stuff, or what). Noel