[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"
Raymond McLaughlin
driveray at ameritech.net
Fri Jan 25 00:10:04 EST 2008
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> When's the last time you saw an RLL drive or an MFM drive?
>
> Do you even know what one looks like?
>
> [Hint, they're both have a 5-1/4 x 3-drive-bays tall
> form factor, and they're as heavy as bowling balls]
If I recall, my old 8088 had a MFM drive that was only 1 to 1 1/2 drive
bays tall. It made all kinds of cool "bee bleep" sounds while working,
and you were supposed to run a special program to park the read-write
heads prior to moving the unit.
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