Re: [COFF] Disk Technology was [Simh] Which PDP-11 to choose

Interesting that it was the platter bonding. The explanation SI gave us (They sold us the super Eagles along with their controller) was that it was a lubricant. So I had assumed a bearing seal fail. Anyway after about 4 swap outs and a lot of lifting they lasted a further 15 years until we knocked down the office with the original 750 and its big brother an 8810 still in the computer room as all the resellers wanted certificates of continuing maintenance that would have cost more than they were willing to pay for those vaxs. From: John P. Linderman [mailto:jpl.jpl@gmail.com] Sent: 02 July 2019 12:47 To: Larry McVoy &lt;lm(a)mcvoy.com&gt; Cc: Clem Cole &lt;clemc(a)ccc.com&gt;; Patrick Finnegan &lt;pat(a)computer-refuge.org&gt;; COFF &lt;coff(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt;; Tim Wilkinson &lt;tjw(a)twsoft.co.uk&gt; Subject: Re: [COFF] Disk Technology was [Simh] Which PDP-11 to choose There were eagles, and then there were super-eagles. Our experience with eagles was great, and we were eager to try the (larger) super-eagles. We soaked them for a month or so, then put them into production use. Whereupon, they started dropping like flies. It turns out the glue they used to attach the platters to the spindle slowly crept out over time, eventually coming to grief with a read/write head. This experience was wide-spread, and seriously damaged Fujitsu's reputation. On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:11 AM Larry McVoy &lt;lm(a)mcvoy.com <mailto:lm@mcvoy.com> > wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:49:42AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: We ran Eagles on the Masscomps we had at Geophysics. Nothing but good things to say about those drives. _______________________________________________ COFF mailing list COFF(a)minnie.tuhs.org <mailto:COFF@minnie.tuhs.org> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus