HDD died in a spectacular way

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
Date: Sun May 3 13:51:04 1998

On Sun, 3 May 1998, James Willing wrote:

> The room looked like someone had stood in the center of the room with an
> M-16, and used it to try to cut the room in half. Clear around the room at
> about table top level were pieces of plastic and metal stuck into the wall
> boards. The plexiglas 'bubble' from the HDA was gone (obviously shattered)
> and the platters had large chunks missing from them. No need to even look
> for the head/arm assemblies.

This is hilarious. I've never heard of a hard drive going "Rambo".


Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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