Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Michael B. Brutman]

Scott Stevens wrote:

> Why, CMI, of course!  (evil wink)
> 

I have a PC AT downstairs.  When I first aquired it (recycling cage at 
work) I opened it up to survey the situation, and found a CMI drive in 
it.  After cleaning out the dust bunnies I powered it up, and it booted 
from the evil unit.

After that I gingerly re-assembled it, and I am waiting to post it on 
eBay with a reserve of $10K USD.

No seriously, I was so suprised that the drive was working that my jaw 
probably hit the floor.  I had never seen a CMI drive and I heard the 
story about how they ramped up production very quickly for IBM, and thus 
threw the quality out of the window.  This drive was either very lightly 
used, or it was a very early model that didn't suffer from the ramp-up 
in production.