From: axel hartmann (axelh_at_polysci.umass.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 18 1997 - 11:00:08 EDT
On Sonntag, 17. August 1997 20:48, Gene J wrote:
>> >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. :)
And I was just reading an article on "percussive maintenance"...
axel
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