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From: dbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Used reconditioned hard disks?
Message-ID: <1707@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 17 Feb 88 16:33:05 GMT
References: <111@ucrmath.UUCP> <1240@qetzal.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@mipos3.intel.com
Reply-To: dbraun@cadev4.UUCP (Doug Braun ~)
Organization: Corporate CAD, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <1240@qetzal.UUCP> root@qetzal.UUCP (Admin) writes:

>Yes - and apparently you don't really want to do it.  We've purchased
>three drives, none of which worked.  They were repaired for a reasonable
>price (and additional $95), so I don't feel screwed, but it's less of
>a deal than it appears.

Here's how I got some really cheap drives:
    On a whim, I called a local place that repairs drives.
It turned out that they have a whole room of broken drives that
they don't feel like fixing (or are totally junked).  I bought
from them 3 Disctron full height 20 meg drives for $10 each.
I picked ones that spun and didn't make funny noises out
of a box full of them.  One evening later, after swapping
boards and replacing a transistor with a broken lead, I
had two working ones, for a total investment of $30.25.

P.S.: These are fairly cheap, slow drives.  Has anyone
heard any horror stories about them?  I never heard of the brand.
Since the place charged a minimum of $99 for service,
these drives were considered not worth repairing, no matter
how trivial the problem.


Doug Braun				Intel Corp CAD
					408 496-5939

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