Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:06:36 +0100
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: Viglen Winnie / Miniscribe 3438

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:12 +0100, Chris Johns wrote:
> I once had an Archimdedes that had a "ST506" type drive (can't remember
> what make it was). It got to the point it wouldn't spin up, so I took the
> lid off (the drive) and gave the motor a bit of hand (by turning the top
> of the platters). It survived enough to get the data off, and might still
> be working today - I don't have that machine anymore.

>From what I remember, most of those early Archimedes disks were
Miniscribes as well.  You could always recognise them by the rather
distinctive noise they made during calibration at power up.

p.