Five and quarter drives

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:

> I thought the old 180K drives were aluminum inside, if so they would have
> been recycled (back when aluminum was worth something)

More likely they were cast iron.  Aluminum would've been too expensive and
overkill for drive mechs.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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