[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[John L Marshall]

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>> :) f) staring (afraid to even *touch it*) when Seagate brought in a *9
>> platter* 1GB hard drive. We had to sign an 'evaluation' PO (you break it,
>> you buy it) for $8000. It took over 16 hours just to format it. When we 
>> did
>> the DOS Dir and saw over 1GB of storage, there were about 22 people in 
>> the
>> lab, just *staring*. No one said anything, we just *stared* like it had
>> dropped out of a space ship.
>
> Heh.  I have,  somewhere around here,  a couple of 1G SCSI drives,  and 
> those
> suckers are *huge*.  5-1/4" FH form factor,  dunno how many platters in it 
> or
> which of the two is good and which ain't -- I was told one of them still
> works.  Hardly seems worth bothering with these days...
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My first hard disk drive was 10 MB, 8 inch, made by Shugart, SASI interface, 
40 pins. SASI later grew up to become SCSI.Oh...... the floppy drive a dual 
8 inch drive made by Persci. I had to talk with Gary Kildall to get some 
hints for writing a device driver for the Persci. It had a single voice coil 
head positioner for both drives.

Take care,
John

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