On 3/16/22 18:25, John Herron via cctalk wrote: > I was visiting a new thrift store and saw a disk pack they had. I joked > that mine are just fun display/conversation pieces. > > Do the giant drives suffer the same head crash issues that a bad zip disk > can do or are these safe if someone actually wanted to see what was on them?
I vividly recall a log by an operator who had a bad CDC 844 pack who proceeded to destroy 5 drives and 3 additional packs. It was detailed enough that it read like Gerard Hoffnung's "Bricklayer's Story". https://monologues.co.uk/Sketches/Bricklayers_Story.htm Be careful.