holley cow 1997 hdd

[skystormfarms]

i just found a 97 hdd and just for the hel* of it i putt it on my hdd reader and it spun up fine read it platters and the oldest game ever was on it
i was suprised that it spune up but reading it wow wow

[Toasty]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

Carb pics on it?

[skystormfarms]

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Carb pics ?

[Topcat]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

HD from 1997? meh....had you said 1987 or 1977, then maybe you'd have had some thing. I have an old MFM 5.25 full height around here somewhere...... now THATS a relic!

[skystormfarms]

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ya well im have a quantum bigfoot atx40v80
oh and that thing is as old as i am mfg date 06/03/97

[ratdude747]

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bigfoot? those are old and weird.

I have more exotic stuff than that.

1993 conner
198x WD hard card
500mb seagate medalist (1994?)
1987 mac se with a 20mb SCSI

what 5 year old taught you how to spell titles?

[skystormfarms]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

i lived in non englesh spelling contrey
and i thot you were on my ignor list rat dude

[ratdude747]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

Ignore lists are unrelated to when and where you can post. it has to do with personal messages.

nothing personal against you, but your posts are hard to read and you seem to have the mentality of a 12 year old. it gets old really fast. your mispelliings look like intentional mispellings meant to make things appear as the are not. just saying how things look from over here.

[Digital Technophile]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

The one thing that makes old hard drives iffy is the lubrication coating on the platters becomes gooey with age. 1997 still not old enough yet. IIRC, running the drives keeps that stuff from becoming "goo".

[Krankshaft]

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I've got one fully working 80808 with a full height MFM hard drive and Dos 5.1 on it I think it's a whopping 10 MB! I have another full height two 5.25 drive IBM with no hard drive and GWBasic.

Those old MFM HDDs used a stepper motor to move the read/write heads. Talking about ancient technology then again the density on the platters wasn't as great as on a modern hard drive. Steppers can only move in degrees modern ones can get down to maybe 0.72 of a degree per step. Nowhere near the sensitivity you need with todays tightly packed platters.

Other than a magnetic actuator replacing the stepper motor and higher RPM motors for the platters. When you think about it hard drives haven't really changed since the 80s.

[skystormfarms]

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i am as old as the 97 drive

[ratdude747]

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so barely 14?

starting young I see.

just so you know, you have to act mature on this forum (with occasional exceptions, but those are obvious).

go with the flow of a thread. unless it is an off topic forum's thread, assume maturity is expected. you can be funny but don't be a fool about it.

[skystormfarms]

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no the drive is as old as me 06/03/97 my b-day and mfg date of drive

[ratdude747]

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yes, 14. your 14th birthday was on the 3rd of this month. do you know math or did you flunk that?

2011-1997 is 14. likewise, 2011-1992 is 19, which I will be this saturday.

1st grade math man...

[skystormfarms]

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flunk

[Toasty]

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Carb pics ?

Oh the youngin's and furriner's...

http://www.holley.com/

[ratdude747]

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flunk

fail

[Sparkey55]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

epic fail

[dood]

Re: holley cow 1997 hdd

Shaking my head...