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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 discoveries
Message-ID: <16196@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 19:01:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 19:01:44 1987
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In article <15564@topaz.rutgers.edu>, lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:
> 
> That's funny, cause my drive is LOUDER than my A1000 ever was.  Really
> annoying too.  I know it's a Chinon, saw the label myself when installing
> the hard drive (still now controller though, back ordered ).   Maybe
> I need a little oil?

I recently described the sound of my A1000 drives as "a cement mixer full
of rocks".  Actually, that was a bit kind ... they really sound like one
of those industrial leaf/grass blowers that the Grounds & Facilities crew
like to start using at 7:00 AM :-)!

Until I happened across the StepRate program, I could literally watch TV in
the living room, and hear when a diskcopy or long compile had finished on
the Amy in the spare bedroom ... and I don't listen to TV at a low volume!

Now, with StepRate, the 1000's drives sound almost as soothing as that
dentist's drill ... very pleasing (see, all things *are* relative)!


I guess the 2000's are "sleeping around" as much as the 1000's did ... the
single floppy in mine is from a Japanese M-word company (Matsushita, as
I recall).  Very quiet.

One wonders if someone at CBM makes sure that machines leave the plant
with matched sets of drives ... wouldn't do to have one LOUD drive, and
one quiet one, now would it ...?

/kim

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