Subj : Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : Ben Collver
From : Oldbieone
Date : Fri Mar 03 2023 13:10:34

  Re: Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
  By: Ben Collver to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Mar 02 2023 11:10 am

 > Same here. My first hard disk was a full-height 80 MB MFM disk and i
 > remember Dad initializing it using DEBUG.COM and a cheat sheet. It was
 > the second loudest hard drive i have used. The loudest was a Seagate
 > SCSI drive from the same era. It sounded like a box of marbles dropped
 > on a hard floor.

I had a 20 or maybe 25MB MFM drive in the first machine my dad gave me. It was an Olivetti M-something. A beige and brown monster-sized desktop. I mean, this thing was YUGE! After a while, the drive became tempremental and it's performance (if you can call it that) seemed to be affected by room temperature/humidity, and if it was a hot and humid day, sometimes the drive would just refuse to spin up at all. The "fix" was to pop the cover off and stick a fan facing the drive for a couple of minutes before trying to start the machine, lol!!

Biggest POS ever, but super exciting for an 8 yr old to have their own computer just like the grown ups :)
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