Win 3.0

From: Les Berry <lfb107_at_psu.edu>
Date: Fri Jan 30 23:22:22 1998

At 11:43 PM 1/30/98 GMT, Barry Peterson wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:17:51 -0500, you said:
>
>>Barry Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>> 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).
>
>I had it for >3 years, he had it for two more, now his grandson has
>it... So far, so good.
>_______________

The Micropolis I stuck in my AT&T has been dropped twice and
actually caught on fire once! Still works too... Believe it or not,
chkdsk and scandisk both give it the 100% ok.

Les
Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 23:22:22 GMT