What Classic Computer are All About - A Lovers

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Sun Jul 13 00:27:20 1997

> As long as we're talking about classic hard drives, I can't help but put
> in a plug for the Fujitsu Eagle. I know of several commercial sites
> which still prefer 15-year old Eagles to modern 3.5" drives for reliability
> reasons. I myself have a dozen or so Eagles that hum along just fine.

Fujitsu Eagles GOOD? I remember that Fujitsu made a bunch of real dogs in
the line, with new drives crashing all over the place. Tucked inside my
Sun-4/280 was a thinly veiled letter of apology from Sun, basically
stating that they were sorry that they had to ship units with Eagles, and
the problems would be sorted out as soon as possible.

Incidently, comparing modern micros to yesterday's minis I feel is a bit
silly. The minis, being big expensive things, perhaps doing mission
critical tasks, were produced to very high standards. One bad unit could
really cause a stink and a customer, perhaps worth millions, could be
lost. Fujitsu still is "known" for Eagles.

Micros (even the classic ones), on the other hand, are built with
every cost cutting trick known (including in the QA department), and
individual failures, if kept in low numbers, are relatively harmless to
the business.

No folks, the overall quality of computers has not changed. There were
gems and junk in the past, just as there are gems and junk now.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Sun Jul 13 1997 - 00:27:20 BST