need some advice on some VAX boards ...

From: Jim Tuck <technos_at_nerdland.org>
Date: Fri Oct 5 01:04:39 2001

On Friday, October 05, 2001 12:58 AM, Absurdly Obtuse [SMTP:vance_at_ikickass.org]
wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> > The ST225 was indeed 65ms...scary slow. It made a great distinctive
> > "peep-peep" sound, though...which I liked even more than the [still
> > rather cool] "chirp-chirp" sound of the ST251 and ST251-1. :-)
>
> I *love* that sound. Another good one is the IBM WDA-105. That was a
> nice-sounding drive. Another melodic one. Only 5 megs though.
>
> Peace... Sridhar

I used to have a pair of full height Micropolis that sounded just wonderful..
Jet-engine
noises on startup, and a thick twang-beeeeep sound when it seeked.

Dun remember what model, and I'm too lazy to dig em out and see, but I'm sure
they
were 170M units.

Jim
Received on Fri Oct 05 2001 - 01:04:39 BST