Date   : Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:44:27 +0100
From   : philpem@... (Philip Pemberton)
Subject: OT Only Connect

Rick Murray wrote:
> Didn't the original Archie (A410?) harddisc expansion use a two-cable 
> ST506 drive?

Yep. Some of them used a Kalok Octagon. Wonderfully unreliable -- 
typical lifetime of about 3-6 months, in my experience.

One of those stupid things got me banned from the school IT lab 
ad-infinitum. Grrr.

> 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.....

LOL!

I started off with a Spectrum +2A, then got a 486 PC a bit later on. I 
seem to recall being pretty good at Lemmings.. :)

Though I was never exposed to MFM drives until school and the 
aforementioned Acorn A410 + 40MB Octagon. I seem to recall having a 
120MB Conner in my 486, later upgraded to an 800MB Maxtor (which I think 
I still have... somewhere)

I do have some seriously old drives from other machines though... 
notably an 80MB IBM and a 100MB Fujitsu. Oh, and the Conner CFS425 that 
was liberated from the RiscPC (which if memory serves currently has a 
4GB or 6GB Seagate U4).

-- 
Phil.
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