Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[Glen Goodwin]

Finally getting nearly up-to-date on the classiccmp mail . . .

Joe R. wrote:
>    You may be right but I THOUGHT it was Fujitsu. Whatever it was, it's
> working fine. It's already outlasted several Maxtors and Seagates. I just
> checked the device manager and it says that it's an IBM drive so it doesn't
> identify the actual manufacturer.

Sorry, Joe, but you're mistaken.  The drive you got is an IBM-branded
Hitachi (as are all of the drives we used in our final 200 or so
systems -- we'll be shutting down the computer facility sometime
in the next couple of months).

I'd have to pull some records but I'd say we used at least 500 of
the IBM/Hitachi drives -- and I KNOW that we had a zero failure
rate on them.

Glen
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