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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Open Hard Drives
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Date: 4 Nov 90 16:11:02 GMT
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In article <272f0ef4-3be.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon) writes:
>
>>...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.
>

	A hard drive with a plexiglas cover sure would be
interesting, wouldn't it?

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