Panasonic luggable

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2 Jul 2007 at 13:40, Fred Cisin wrote:

> Instead of replacing the drives, we bought a large quantity of doors and
> hinges.  When the college switched to mostly new machines, the college
> administrators threw out our box of repair parts, rendering all subsequent
> ones that broke "unrepairable".

The drives with the broken plastic holding the guide pin can be 
repaired with a bit of ingenuity.  

I saw the slam-bang behavior with the Micropolis "squeeze to close" 
type of drives--folks would just quickly flip the door open and let 
it bang against the stop.  Micropolis drives, fortunately, were built 
like a brick outhouse and could take the abuse.  We tried replacing 
the Micropolis drives with Tandons and had door problems in the field 
all too frequently.  I think we eventually went to MPIs for awhile.

There just weren't that many manufacturers of 100 TPI drives at any 
time.

Cheers,
Chuck