What Classic Computer are All About - A Lovers

From: TJ Plajer <cerebral_at_michianatoday.com>
Date: Tue Jul 15 21:58:26 1997

At 09:34 AM 7/15/97 -0400, you wrote:

>First off why bother withg the st225s? They are slow (st251s are
>faster!) and their reliability is at best ok. FYI: st225s live far

I would if I had a ST-251, but I got 4 ST-225's, and 2 of them are in use,
and the other 2 are spares.
they are slow, but they do work nicely. I also like the sound of old
hardware, the new drives you can hardly hear them run, with these, you can
hear them a mile away! :)
The cooling fan on this machine is as loud as the hard disks, and moves lots
of warm air..


>longer if they are cooled. If the fan isn't noisy it isn't moving enough
>air past them, seriously! Also if they are in the smae box as all the
>other hardware they raise the other components temperature lowering their

it is in an XT case, which is huge, and has one slot free for air to move..
and my room is not air condidtioned, but the house is, but the cold never
travels in here! <G>

>life. Heat is not your friend, this is why computer rooms are air
>conditioned an usuialy under 70 degrees F.
>
>Allison
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Received on Tue Jul 15 1997 - 21:58:26 BST