hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Nov 1 21:16:10 2001

I'm really tired of sending things, and I've still got a few things to send to
people.

Besides, you didn't even want those Altos boxes I bought on your behalf a couple
of years back. I ended up giving them away (to Will Jennings) just to get them
out of the car. The Thrift Store didn't even want them back for free. <sigh>

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk


> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > Actually, I use Windows 30+ hours per day (# of machines * # of hours)
> > or, if you like, nearly every waking minute, and have more trouble
> > with disk subsystem failures on the Apples in the typical half-hour
> > session than I have with the Windows boxesin any given month. Now,
> > I'm only using three Apples at the moment, but on any given day, I
> > have more data losses than I can remember having over the entire 20+
> > years I have been using CP/M. These Apple machines (][+, IIe, //c)
> > happily intechange media, so whatever, if anything, is wrong with them
> > is common to them all. They behave pretty much as I remember all
> > Apples doing, even back in the '80's when folks willingly tolerated
> > such behavior, which clearly reminds me of why I never liked them.
>
> Give me your address. I'll send you a head cleaning kit. You should also
> install air filters in your building where the Apples are housed, and it
> would help to stop digging up dirt near them if you're doing so.
>
> > As I said in a previous email, I'm planning to chuck the things in
> > order to get them off the market, and my drive a truck over them just
> > to protect the public, as soon as I'm done recovering the source files
> > and doc I've so far been unable to recover. (Today was one of the
> > days on which I renewed this frustrating experience, BTW.)
>
> If you send them to me I can probably do it quicker.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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