Classic Computer Rescue Squad

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Nov 15 08:37:36 1997

PG Manney wrote:
>
> I dunno...I dropped one off my desk (2 1/2 ft), and it survived fine.
>
> I dropped a 1.2 GB HDD (WD, I think) BRAND NEW off my desk onto a carpet,
> and it died (couldn't have been a ST-157, no-o-o-o.) Depends on how it
> bounces, I guess.
>
> Anyone wanna try this with a 9 gig, in the interests of science?

Sure. Ship it to me. (Oh, you meant _mine_?)
-- 
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails 
of the last priest."  [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sat Nov 15 1997 - 08:37:36 GMT

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