Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] I'm back and resubscribed
From: davidcope at triodeandco.com (David Cope)
Date: Thu Sep 2 10:34:35 2004
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Just bought a 60GB Hitachi TravelStar to replace the recently deceased 
3.5 year old Toshiba 10 gigger in my Ti PowerBook. Nice to have elbow 
room again. Hope it holds up! (Then again, the odds of my still having 
this laptop in another 3.5 years are extremely long.) The money I 
didn't spend on a new computer this time around goes into the Leica 
kitty.

In the way back machine, My 1985 $3,500 PC XT came with a 10 Megabyte 
full height 5.25" HD!

On Sep 2, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Feli di Giorgio wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 05:25, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> During my time at Google, we bought and used hundreds of thousands of 
>> disks.
>> IBM were the least reliable. Seagate were the most reliable. Maxtor, 
>> Western Digital,
>> and Toshiba were all about the same. We didn't buy any Quantum. I 
>> don't think that Quantum
>> is still manufactured by Quantum; I think some other company bought 
>> the brand name and
>> Quantum got out of the disk business.
>
> Interesting how times change. IBM used to make really good drives, but
> they were expensive.10 years ago Seagate was the king, then junk and 
> now
> they are up again. Quantum used to be good, but as you say, I'm not 
> even
> sure if they are really still around.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Feli
>
>
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] I'm back and resubscribed)
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Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] I'm back and resubscribed)
Message from feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio) ([Leica] I'm back and resubscribed)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] I'm back and resubscribed)
Message from feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio) ([Leica] I'm back and resubscribed)