Date   : Sat, 10 Dec 1983 16:11:00-PST
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@usc-isid
Subject: Re: hard disk travelling advice requested

Kim (et al)

We here in XVIII Abn Corps have been hauling good old Corvus 20 Meggers around
for quite a while now.  We make sure the heads are parked, stuff it in a nice
stiff foam padded chest a company made for us (kind of like rock bands use --
nice tough things with black plastic sheet outside, steel edging and corners,
fancy latches, carrying handles -- cost a couple hundred apiece, unfortunately.

We've sent them right through commercial airline baggage handling, seen them
come down the chutes to the big turning devices upside down, sideways, end
over end.  Always seem to come through OK.  Never minded upside down, sideways.
Shipped them strapped to military aircraft pallets, under, on, upside down,
whatever way they'd fit to make the pallet square -- always came through OK.
Hauled them in the backs of jeeps, trucks, up dirt roads and through woods...
came through OK.  Main thing was cushioning the horrible sharp raps and jolts
that shatter logic boards and knock things really loose.  Normal jolts never
seem to bother them.

That's with the Corvus 20Megger now -- donno about yours.

Regards,

David Kirschbaum
SGM, USA
Corps Automation Mgt Office