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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Open Hard Drives
Message-ID: <272f0ef4-3be.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 Oct 90 18:55:04 GMT
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>...I blew the dust off of the platters with a can of compressed air,
>hooked it up.  The machine not only booted from the drive, but successfuly
>read the software and files that were installed on it.  We played
>with it for about 5 minutes without any errors.  It's back on display...

I have done this as well, with an old Shugart 712.  After about 2-3 hours of
accumulated use, the poor thing finally croaked.  Sure was fun to watch a
defragger go to work on it, though.

>I wouldn't keep anything important on a drive that had been opened, but
>they DO still work. 

Amen!

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer:                Yeah, I said it.  So what?