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Reminds me of a cartoon - the salesman was saying, "And you'll like the easy maintenance" - The picture showed a computer with a target on it, saying "Kick here" ---------- From: axel hartmann[SMTP:axelh@polysci.umass.edu] Sent: 1997 August 18 - Monday 11:00 To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu; 'blue@enteract.com' Subject: RE: Rubber Mallet, was RE: Sources for 2.1 gig On Sonntag, 17. August 1997 20:48, 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. :) And I was just reading an article on "percussive maintenance"... axel