[Coco] Older drives smaller than 1G.

[Chuck Youse]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:01 -0500, Sean wrote:
> ..."Older" drives under 1G...
> I remember my first 1G IDE drive... In 1997...
> I think even drives under 100 gig are 'old' now!
> 
> Bridging to my other hobby, related to secure data destruction:  A
> .223 rifle bullet through a 3.5" hard drive looks REALLY cool if you
> get it through the platters and the case.  Nice multiple eruptions of
> metal!


*grins* When I was a teenager, I worked for Tandy during the 540MB
barrier breach.  Had to install special software that would load on
start that would intercept BIOS calls on PCs to allow access to > 1024
cylinders... can't for the life of me remember what Western Digital
shipped with ... 

C.