On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > The motor and positioner bearings will probably stick. Sure you _can_
> > dismantle the HDA in a clean room and re-lubricate, but re-aligning the
> > drive will not be trivial
>
> I would hope that in 100 years re-aligning a late-1990's hard drive would
> be a trivial task. Otherwise there would be no purpose to this time
> capsule thing.
>
> It would be really funny if a technology time capsule from 1999 turned
> into an extraordinary gift to a future that has lost all knowledge of
> high-technology.
Well, do not forget the 'chisel and flat rock' technology. That is
pretty durable!
- don
> > The heads will almost certainly stick to the platter, and the head
> > surface may well be damaged as a result.
> >
> > Will the platter demagnetise, or suffer from magnetic patterns shifting
> > with time. It's certainly possible.
>
> By then they should have technology that can read the magnetic remnants of
> a floppy disk that has disintegrated into dust, no?
>
> Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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> Always being hassled by the man.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 01/15/99]
>
>
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