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The 8" ones were much better; the later 5.25" drives were fine. But it took a while for them to settle down. |
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Speaking of drives. The hard drives I dealt with were on spindles with so many individual platters. Sometimes just one, up to 8 or so. When you "swapped platters", you took a plastic case that screwed onto the top of the spindle and you pulled the whole thing out, then screwed another spindle in.
Once in a while, you had to align the heads using a scope, being careful not to let your tie slip into the spinning platter while you nudged the heads by hand. Of course, you did clean your platters regularly, right? |
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I never had to do that.
My earliest memory for hard drives was the original Seagate ST-506 -- all 5MB worth. That formed the basis ultimately for the IDE interface. We instead got a killer 20MB Fujitsu that was a speed demon; its seeks sounded like popping corn. |
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sorry for my mistake..
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