Barry Peterson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:59:47 +0300, you said:
>
> >>(Does anyone else think that the sounds made by old MFM drives is really
> >>cool??)
> >Yep. I think that some sound like "lasers" or optical devices of some sort.
> >Still make me feel like I'm living in the future.
>
> I sold a drive (IIRC, a micropolis 85MB) that would spool up and then
> do a couple of "ching-chings" and worked fine. I tested the livin'
> daylights out of it; no problems, but many folks told me and the
> fellow I sold it to that it would die immediately.
So how long has the guy you sold it to been using it? (I've had bad
luck with the Micropolis 40MB drives in some AT&T 3B1s).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 16:17:51 GMT