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- From: jnsims01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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- Subject: WHAT? No hard drives? HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.111327.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:13:27 GMT
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- Organization: University of Louisville
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- We are facing a dilemna which I don't know how to solve. Any help and/or
- suggestions you can give will be *greatly* appreciated.
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- We have a wide range of vendors and models of PC's on campus. Many of them are
- older XT class machines which are still in productive use. We are being told by
- our main vendor that 1) MFM hard-drives are no longer obtainable, 2) IDE drives
- smaller than 40MB are rapidly becoming unobtainable, and 3) they have no
- suggestion as to how we can install new and/or replacement hard drives in these
- older PC's. We would be perfectly willing to begin installing an IDE 40MB drive
- and interface into these older machines, but no one we talk to thinks it can be
- done. In these economic times, telling our users to replace the PC when the
- hard drive dies is technologically correct but financially unacceptable.
-
- Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know its considered rude to ask
- you to e-mail instead of post, but I can't keep up with news and the NETGURUS
- are my only hope. Thanks in advance.
-
-
- My wife AND my employer ignore my opinions - feel free to do the same!
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