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- From: Jason Kelk <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What's a 8250?
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 01:36:50 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
- Message-ID: <9601040136.AA0008q@cosine.demon.co.uk>
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- A little while ago I wrote:
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- : Those Pet drives had a fault. If you shut 'em down with a disk
- : in the drive a burst of heat wipes the disk and then the linear
- : motor shuts off and drops the head straight through the disk!!
-
- Roman Kowalczuk (stelex@idirect.com) then said:
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- : I ran an 8250 from October 84 through to early 1989 and I never
- : experienced this trouble.
-
- Well, I never saw one do it, but a friend of mine did at the local college.
- They had to dismantle the drive to remove the disk! Its an improvement tho,
- some of the older Pet drives (I think the model number was 8080 but I could
- well be wrong) used to do the same, except the power transformer would give
- a sudden rise in temperature on shutting down and actually *melted* the disk
- into the mechanism before the head dropped!
-
- : Cool graphic btw. What's it say?
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- I'm not entirely sure, I think it says Cosine Systems but I do get carried
- away when I'm drawing... I'll include it again and if anyone has a better
- interpretation please let me know!
-
- Jason (who hopes Roman guessed he was joking just then! =-)
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