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Leon
06-12-2002, 03:24 AM
This was on [H] today. I found it pretty amusing.

http://www.hogens.com/75gxp/
Tommy Boomfiger
06-12-2002, 03:35 AM
:heh: thats pretty funny. reminds me of a hard drive i found a month ago at my dads work. i dont remember if it was ibm or seagate, but it had a 2mb capacity. the drive still worked, but all the data was corrupted
Jeffbx
06-12-2002, 05:12 AM
Too funny! The copy of Daikatana in the trash was a nice touch!
Leon
06-12-2002, 05:39 AM
2MB??!?? :eek:

Dang, the smallest I have seen was a 20MB drive on my old XT machine.
ribitch
06-12-2002, 05:47 AM
i have a 10 MB drive that came with my old 286. Its a beast.
Tommy Boomfiger
06-12-2002, 05:52 AM
Originally posted by Leon
2MB??!?? :eek:

Dang, the smallest I have seen was a 20MB drive on my old XT machine. i think so, they still have it. ill try to get a pic of it next time im over there
Jeffbx
06-12-2002, 08:59 AM
About 10 years ago I supported a site that used AT&T 6300 PCs - they had either a 5 (standard) or 10MB (upgraded!) hard drive installed.

The spindles had a tendency to stick sometimes, and would not be able to spin back up. AT&T's answer to that was to give the machine a good hard whack on the side to free the stuck spindle. It actually worked great, except for the time when one of the techs had a machine open, and he gave the DRIVE a good whack... right on top of it... with his fist. The drive said 'kkkktzzz' and spun no more. :heh:
Ladogaboy
06-12-2002, 09:00 AM
hahaha... lol...

:heh:
NuTs62
06-12-2002, 12:41 PM
interesting story.. dangit, i dont know where the old XT's in my house went.. I'm almost sure that it still boots up too!
Hoser
06-12-2002, 09:59 PM
I still have an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and full height 360K floppy drive. It still works. I don't know if any of my current machines will be that sturdy.
Dave_7
06-12-2002, 10:34 PM
If I wasn't worried about the jinx... I'd tell you that I've never had a problem with any of my IBM drives (75 or 60 series).

Like I said, though... I WOULD say that if I weren't worried... but I am, so I won't.




Dave.
Speedfreak
06-12-2002, 11:34 PM
Originally posted by Tommy Boomfiger
:heh: thats pretty funny. reminds me of a hard drive i found a month ago at my dads work. i dont remember if it was ibm or seagate, but it had a 2mb capacity. the drive still worked, but all the data was corrupted

Format that puppy and put QNX on it. :)