[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Historical note and ping!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

300TB hard drive to arrive by 2010 ~ Seagate...

[mad_as_he$$]

I've done my part. Can't say exactly how many but it is significant. Only had one over the years that gave me trouble. Took it to Seagate - then in Scotts Valley and Charlie himself got me a new one.

[RightWhale]

Had a hard drive of about 80 megabyte capacity and eight inch disks. Stood in a cabinet by itself. One day a terrible screeching sound came through the office and the computer stopped dead. That was the sound of the read/write head plowing a furrow in the aluminum disk substrate. Never got fixed, it sat around for a few months and was eventually carted off to the dump.

[Tanniker Smith]

I remember those.

Had a bunch of Seagate stuff back in ye olde cube, back in the day.

[Dr. Sivana]

The 20 Meg Seagate 225 and the 40 MB Seagate 251 were the “Model t”’s of mid-80’s computing. They were included in almost every white box setup and a lot of the name brand PCs. There used to be over a dozen hard drive players. Now there are four or five (Remember Priam, Rodime, Core, Quantum, Conner, CMI, Micropolis). I do NOT miss MFM drives and DOS debug.

[SledgeCS]

I have a drive similar to that one on my desk with the top plate off so you can see inside. I is the Panasonic 10meg drive out of my first IBM XT. Some of the kids working for me do not believe the steps it used to take to get an MFM or RLL drive formatted.

[ShadowAce]

[KoRn]

I’ve seen many seagate HDs in use at work over the years, and have never seen one fail.

[reagan_fanatic]

Always had better luck with Western Digital than Seagate.

Good for them, though.

[pctech]

I think the Air Force used those things in their old Zenith Z-100 machines. Once you took them out of the computer they did an excellent impression of a door stop.

I once took one, opened it up, put the cover back on and started the computer. It made this wonderful blue smoke, kind of like the smoke that comes out of the tailpipe of my car.

[amigatec]

And they’re still junk. The only Drives I ever had problems with were Seagate. I’ll buy any thing but them.

[KevinB]

I remember gleefully sitting at my desk in 1985 realizing that I’d never need to buy another piece of computer equipment now that I had taken delivery of my new XT Clone with two 5-1/4” floppy drives, 20 meg Seagate hard drive and Epson near letter quality dot-matrix printer. Silly me.