Reply to post: Re: How to treat removable pack drives

Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

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Re: How to treat removable pack drives

Wasn't just CDC. Miniscribe went down the same way back in the late 80's, but they did it with style. Hand packing 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipping them back and forth from Singapore to Colorado was just one of the shady things they did.

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