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Subject: Re:  Morrow
Message-ID: <4544@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 11:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 11:02:00 1983
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I've been running a Morrow Decision I, Z80, 64k, 8"DSDD flopy, 5Meg HD
since January, on the average 4-5 hours every day (and often long
sessions of 16-18 hours straight).  Summer temperatures 100 degrees +.
Cheap floppies.  Poor electrical current and no isolators.  No mainten-
ance.  Cheap rug with lots of static electricity.  Cats, cigarette
smoke, strange public domain software that makes peculiar noises inside
your hard disk (only once!).   Primitive backup procedures (copy the
entire hard disk to floppies every week).  Tens of thousands of disk
reads and writes.  Never, NOT ONCE, no single event of failure to read
ONE SINGLE BYTE!  (Exception:  dirt in borrowed disk wore away 1/4 inch
of floppy -- couldn't read that!).  

I disagree with the statement that Morrow hardware gives problems.
I've had my incandescent bulbs dim out, yet the good old Morrow didn't
even lose its memory, much less fail in a disk write.

I don't sell Morrow gear (or anything for that matter) and have no
interest inthe company -- but I surely would buy another, given ANY
alternatives and a couple thousand more dollars extra!

David Kirschbaum, ABN.ISCAMS at USC-ISID