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

Glen Goodwin acme at gbronline.com
Sun May 8 13:38:47 CDT 2005


Eric Smith wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> 
>>I just checked the device manager and it says that it's an IBM drive so
>>it doesn't identify the actual manufacturer.
> 
> 
> Sure it does.  The actual manufacturer was IBM.  They made their own
> drives until they spun off that division as a partnership with Hitachi.

Well, uh, no, Joe got the drive through me just a couple of months ago 
and right on the label it has both the IBM (prominently, displayed as 
the "brand" name) and Hitachi ("manufactured by") names.

Glen
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