Maxtor full-height 5.25" drives of death

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Feb 9 15:18:41 CST 2018


On 02/09/2018 12:14 PM, allison via cctalk wrote:
> 
> The grand daddy of them all is the RL02 salvaged in 1983 and still 
> running along with two packs from then.  Its life was 9 years of
> Monday through Friday power on and now intermittent about 5 times a
> month since 1994.  Still booting a PDP-11.


I've still got an SA4000 drive here.  I haven't fired it up in donkey's
years, but it would be interesting to see if it still worked.

--Chuck


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