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elwoodblues
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Re: Hard Drive Deals

said by Gone:

said by elwoodblues:

I would, remember those POS drives Kalok?

(youtube clip)
speaking, every hard drive from that era was unreliable.

No, i had conner drives, Seagate and WD's never had the failure rate the Kaloks had.

Gone
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Haha, Connor. Now that brings back memories.

elwoodblues
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said by Gone:

Haha, Connor. Now that brings back memories.

I was working for the Shack when those drives were around.

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said by elwoodblues:

said by Gone:

Haha, Connor. Now that brings back memories.

I was working for the Shack when those drives were around.

Remember a 25-1029 or 25-1032 or 25-1045? Old "hard card" drives? They were WD drives with controller on them.

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I can't remember those models specifically, but I remember Quantum was big on hardcards.

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said by donoreo:

said by elwoodblues:

said by Gone:

Haha, Connor. Now that brings back memories.

I was working for the Shack when those drives were around.

Remember a 25-1029 or 25-1032 or 25-1045? Old "hard card" drives? They were WD drives with controller on them.

Damn you Don, I had forgotten those numbers

The last ones came in as a 20mb single platter drive.. slow as molasses.

I used to make a killing on those things, call up everyone who bought a computer from me at Christmas to tell them at $1,099 a 40mb hard drive was on sale.
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While we're being nostalgic. How about an Apple Profile?
a 5 or 10mb full height Shugart hard drive inside.

koira
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said by elwoodblues:

While we're being nostalgic. How about an Apple Profile?
a 5 or 10mb full height Shugart hard drive inside.

said by elwoodblues:

While we're being nostalgic. How about an Apple Profile?
a 5 or 10mb full height Shugart hard drive inside.

I used to work on Xerox 8010 hardware, they ran with the belt driven 8" platter Shugart drives. Like this: »www.digibarn.com/friends ··· dex.html
when those heads crashed there was no doubt with the noise they made.

elwoodblues
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Going ot,Xerox invented so much stuff and literally threw it away,imagine where they would be if they hadn't.

milnoc
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We'd probably be worse off. Ever tried to use one of their business copiers today? Sheesh! Talk about a bloated, incomprehensible mess! I get better results with an HP multifunction printer!

elwoodblues
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said by milnoc:

We'd probably be worse off. Ever tried to use one of their business copiers today? Sheesh! Talk about a bloated, incomprehensible mess! I get better results with an HP multifunction printer!

I had to get one running in an office with network scanning.. boy that was fun.