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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Information wanted on CDC 9720 disks
Message-ID: <5389@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 07:38:57 GMT
References: <7985@eddie.MIT.EDU>
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Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: factory recalls

In article <7985@eddie.MIT.EDU>, jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
> problems I might encounter with these devices.  I am most interested
> in the 9720-850 (851MB), but if you know anything about the earlier

Has anyone actually received one yet??

We ordered a 9720-850 in October from Kierulff, promised to arrive
before Thanksgiving.  That date passed, and they revised the estimate
to December 31.  (George Goble told me that all 850's were recalled
off the shipping dock for excessive seek errors).  That date passed,
they said "end of January", that passed, and then they said the drives
had been recalled *again* and we might get ours in March.

I *want* CDC to take all the time it takes to make the drive reliable,
I just wish somebody would tell me the truth about when I'm going to
get one!  I can't plan anything under these circumstances.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {amdahl,ames!elroy}!cit-vax!speck