Date   : Sun, 18 Dec 1983 19:10:00-PST
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@usc-isid
Subject: Re: hard disk travelling advice requested

Don't get me wrong, now:  we DO have a certain amount of problems with our
Corvuses, probably far more than if they were sitting nice and snug in a
proper office environment.  However, they seem to bear up well enough, and
none of our problems can be directly connected to crashing down a Piedmont
luggage ramp, or the 1/4" of dust and sand in the Sinai coating the logic
board, or the 95 volts of STRANGE current we got in Germany (the stuff that
blew up all our OOOPSes (UPS devices - we call them OOPSes because that was
my initial comment the first time I accidentally kicked out a power cord and
brought the entire Corps Command and Control Net down!)  Thanks for the info
on the Eagle Spirit XT HD being kind of tough.  Rog on Kaypro 10 - read that
elsewhere too:  a somewhat high DOA rate, plus not taking a beating really
well.

My good old little 5-Megger in my Decision I has never skipped a beat in lo,
these many months of hacking -- but then the worst abuse she gets is an
occasional cat curled up on top!

Regards,

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall