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From: olaf@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (olaf.henjum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: COBOL, power cycles, and hard disks
Summary: THANK YOU!  LOTS of (consistent) answers w.r.t. hard disk
Message-ID: <4146@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 18:02:19 GMT
References: <1095.2546ACFE@busker.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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WOW! As the poster of the message that seems to have started this
long discussion on hard disks, I'm impressed.  So are the other
PC-beginners I was trying to get some advice from before posting that
query to the net.

Since the best/most-consistent answers to the questions of
(a) how to tell if a HD auto-parks, and
(b) what effect if any power cycling has on an AT's innards
seem to have already been copied to the net,
it once again seems unnecessary for me to post a summary here.

I've gotten several interesting recommendations for various PC
implementations of COBOL (my third question), and will be posting
a summary of that e-mail as soon as I'm reasonably sure all of the
responses are in.

Again, thanks very much to all of you out there in net-land
who actually wade through this newsgroup and offer meaningful
advice to the beginner!

   -- Olaf Henjum (att!ihlpf!olaf)