Panasonic luggable

dwight elvey dkelvey at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 2 20:37:20 CDT 2007




>From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
>On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > 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.
>
>They're slow, with a helical lead screw, but the last working
>5.25" drive in the world will probably be an early Micropolis.
>

Hi
It's a shame their hard drives were not as good. I think they did
them selve in with a product that was really bad. When I was
working a HaL, we had almost a 100% failure rate in about 1-2
weeks of burnin. We cahnged brands ( I forget who ) and
had your typical 2 or 3 in a thousand rate.
Dwight

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