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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
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Subject: My new AT disk trouble theory
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 22:19:00 EST
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Well, our nine PC ATs are sicker than ever.  One has developed an 
unpleasant discophagic tendency, in that any hard disk drive you 
put in it soon looks pretty bad.  

I have a new theory -- it's the temperature.  The regional service manager
from our computer store (Businessland) came by and reported that their
customers in Florida have been banging on their ATs like crazy and have no
trouble.  So it occurs to me, CMI makes their disks in Chatsworth CA, where
it's pretty warm, or in Singapore, where it's warmer.  Then they ship them
to Boca Raton, where it's equally temperate, they work fine there, and then
ship 'em out.  We open them up in Boston, where the weather is not in the
least temperate, and they fail.  If this theory is true, we should have better
luck this summer than we did during the winter.  I sure hope so.

In the meantime, I'd appreciate short notes from AT users reporting on how
your disks are and how the weather's been.

John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400
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