Ancient history?
I can see it now... documentary special on the IBM Coral Reefs...
-JMS
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From: Chris Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: RE: To Power down or not to Power down, that is the question...
> That was because of CMI, the contractor who built the drives for the AT,
> not the XT. They were a little outfit that bid on the contract for the
> drives for the AT on a lark. Unfortunately for them, they won.
> Apparently they didn't pay much attention to the quantities solicited,
> because when they were awarded the contract, they couldn't possibly
> produce that many drives in the time specified. This led to frantic
> sub-contracting and a slight problem with QC. IBM of course denied for
> a long time that there was any problem at all... not unlike Commodore
> and their little problem with their 1541 disk drive BIOS that when told
> to "save and replace", sometimes replaced a different file than the one
> you wanted.
>
> Another manufacturer (Miniscribe?) did indeed take the CMI drives in
> trade. They were loaded into the hull of a ship which had washed up
> onto some poor woman's yard during a storm, and been abandoned by the
> owners. It sat there for a long time until it was refloated, loaded
> with dead hard drives and scuttled to form an artificial reef.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 4:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: To Power down or not to Power down, that is the question...
>
>
> With the original IBM-PC XT's it was risky to merely turn the unit back
> on.
>
> The drives had terribly short lifespans... and many problems. Thus we
> have
> some new coral reefs thanks to IBM...
>
>
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