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Post #4,016
by dlevitt
8/7/01 9:31:37 AM
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New Re: Seagate may have had problems too . . .
> One drive maker promised to build an artificial reef off Florida out of CMI drives turned in for theirs
> (forgot who it was). They ran into trouble with the EPA, but did have some photos taken throwing
> CMI drives off a fishing boat.


I think that was Emerald Systems, with their 20/20 & 30/30 drives [disk drive and matching capacity backup tape in the same box].
We used to ship them on NetWare/86 and NetWare/286 boxes.

Dave
Who had the first PC/AT on Long Island
Post #4,025
by DonRichards
8/7/01 10:07:19 AM
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New I seem to remember it was the 10 meg drives
The 10 Mb drives from seagate that were sold as upgrades and replaced one of the floppy drives. They were also sold with new systems (both IBM PC XT and various clone systems). It's been a long time though and my memory has holes like a swiss chees.
"When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead. It's given me the strangest collection of hats"
Post #4,068
by Andrew Grygus
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8/7/01 2:15:30 PM
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New Emerald also melted down.
They were popular with VARs for awhile bcause they supported Concurrent DOS.

I got pissed at them because they refused to upgrade the software for their 60-Meg QIC drives to include compression. They said they'd give me a trade-in for a new drive. The trade-in "deal" was considerably more than the distributor price for the new drive. All I needed was a bit more space on what my clients already had.

Then they pissed off everyone because the software for their new drives did a great job of backing up, but not such a good job of restoring.

May they roast in hell along with CMI (and hopefully, eventually, Iomega).
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     THE IBM PC was introduced to the world 20 years ago today - (brettj) - (30) - Aug. 3, 2001, 08:19:15 PM EDT
         On whose doorknob can I hang the dead chicken? -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 3, 2001, 08:45:45 PM EDT
         Ooh, I remember her - (altmann) - Aug. 3, 2001, 10:10:11 PM EDT
         Re: THE IBM PC - as often with historic reports - simplifies - (dmarker2) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2001, 08:20:22 PM EDT
             Re: Investor history: Tech sector could learn from the '80s - (brettj) - Aug. 7, 2001, 12:16:09 PM EDT
         A working AT? - (Andrew Grygus) - (25) - Aug. 4, 2001, 08:36:21 PM EDT
             pre-XT in mint condition?! - (brettj) - (24) - Aug. 4, 2001, 10:21:07 PM EDT
                 I started out on DOS 1.1 on 360K floppies on a real IBM PC - (tonytib) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2001, 10:30:00 PM EDT
                     I started out on DOS 1.0 on 160K floppies on a real IBM PC. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 5, 2001, 01:22:38 PM EDT
                 Well, nearly mint. - (Andrew Grygus) - (21) - Aug. 4, 2001, 11:37:26 PM EDT
                     Re: Chuckle :-) - Businessland !!! remember em well ... - (dmarker2) - Aug. 5, 2001, 07:04:27 PM EDT
                     I worked on original PCs. - (static) - (19) - Aug. 6, 2001, 12:31:59 AM EDT
                         loved pc-write also brown bag software -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 6, 2001, 08:24:14 AM EDT
                         ObAOL Me Too - (deSitter) - (17) - Aug. 6, 2001, 10:45:05 AM EDT
                             While I have no love for Seagate . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Aug. 6, 2001, 11:39:04 AM EDT
                                 Re: While I have no love for Seagate . . - (deSitter) - (4) - Aug. 6, 2001, 05:15:02 PM EDT
                                     Seagate may have had problems too . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Aug. 6, 2001, 09:11:40 PM EDT
                                         Re: Seagate may have had problems too . . . - (dlevitt) - (2) - Aug. 7, 2001, 09:31:37 AM EDT
                                             I seem to remember it was the 10 meg drives - (DonRichards) - Aug. 7, 2001, 10:07:19 AM EDT
                                             Emerald also melted down. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 7, 2001, 02:15:30 PM EDT
                             Alligator memory? - (static) - (10) - Aug. 6, 2001, 10:53:31 PM EDT
                                 Re: Alligator memory? - (deSitter) - (9) - Aug. 7, 2001, 10:09:06 AM EDT
                                     I never damaged any. :-) -NT - (static) - Aug. 8, 2001, 02:24:01 AM EDT
                                     Sounds like some kind of surface mount stuff - (tonytib) - (7) - Aug. 8, 2001, 11:42:18 AM EDT
                                         Sheesh, you guys don't even know what you missed. - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Aug. 8, 2001, 12:43:57 PM EDT
                                             No, those are DIPs - (tonytib) - (4) - Aug. 8, 2001, 02:16:21 PM EDT
                                                 That is most fun on an Apple II - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 8, 2001, 02:45:42 PM EDT
                                                     Twas the Wozniak mindset.. in replication. Cute/dumb overall -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 8, 2001, 03:38:44 PM EDT
                                                 After watching this discussion... - (static) - (1) - Aug. 8, 2001, 08:24:31 PM EDT
                                                     Spent a summer in high school soldering components on boards - (Steve Lowe) - Aug. 9, 2001, 01:27:46 AM EDT
                                             DIPS and Tweek\ufffd - (Ashton) - Aug. 8, 2001, 03:35:45 PM EDT

Well, there's always "Clippy".
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