From: Gene J (blue_at_enteract.com)
Date: Sun Aug 17 1997 - 20:48:49 EDT
> >As for drive prices, the latest catalog from Insight (www.insight.com)
> >listed a 2.1GB/12.7mm Seagate drive for $299, eye opening for me, now all
> >I need is a torx T6, a power drill, a rubber mallet
>
> just curious, but, ummm, would you care to elaborate on that?
> I believe the times when a hammer/mallet was standard equipment
> with Seagate drives are over. (the heads used to stick to the
> magnetic surface, preventing the drive from spinning up - but
> that was in the 40MB-days... a whack with a hammer (or dropping
> the whole computer a few inches) usually did the job...)
I was kidding about the rubber mallet. :)
-- Gene <blue_at_enteract.com>
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