Date   : Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:21:34 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: OT Only Connect

Alex Taylor wrote:

> A lot of that stuff is basically before my time (I was born in '78 so
> I never actually worked with the stuff back in its day), but I've got
> an advantage in that I'm obsessed with old stuff and spend a lot of my
> time hoarding and playing with it, so I have experience of setting up
> MFM disks, XTA disks on Western Digital 8-bit ISA controllers, SCSI
> chains on Mac Pluses and upwards, and so on.

Not SO before your time. I remember fiddling around inside an old 286 
box (an original PS/2 I think?) to hook up the clunky MFM harddisc.

Didn't the original Archie (A410?) harddisc expansion use a two-cable 
ST506 drive?

Somewhere I have a museum piece Apple 20Mb SCSI harddisc. Dead slow, 
dead noisy, and has a rotating dodah on the side (so I think you could 
manually alter the position of the heads by messing with this thing).


> that load from tapes, and how he probably wouldn't be familiar with
> such a thing.

:-) Nice story.

The closest I had over here (with a definite lack of available geeks) 
was my luddite mother actually got most of the references in the song 
Hey Hey 16K. I nearly died.....

Next thing I know, she'll tell me she's Elite commander or something!


Best wishes,

Rick.

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