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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:48:49 +0000, Gene J wrote: >> >As for drive prices, the latest catalog from Insight (www.insight.com) >> >listed a 2.1GB/12.7mm Seagate drive for $299, eye opening for me, now all >> >I need is a torx T6, a power drill, a rubber mallet >> >> just curious, but, ummm, would you care to elaborate on that? >> I believe the times when a hammer/mallet was standard equipment >> with Seagate drives are over. (the heads used to stick to the >> magnetic surface, preventing the drive from spinning up - but >> that was in the 40MB-days... a whack with a hammer (or dropping >> the whole computer a few inches) usually did the job...) > >I was kidding about the rubber mallet. :) >-- > Gene <blue@enteract.com> > Gene- I thought you were serious. I use and still do use a Stanley screwdriver with those fat plastic handles, because I have nearly 20 PCs, maybe 21, of which 8 are 386's, 2 486's, this ThinkPad (seperate catagory), a Pentium server, and the rest are palmtops and <= 286's, and about half of all have seagate MFM hard drives! :-> Paul