Ain't that the truth.  I was in charge of maintaining
them (I use the term very loosely) when I was in
college and those drives were the flakiest things. 
Used to drive me nuts.  The joys of running word star
on CP/M... and thinking I was in heaven when I moved
to wordperfect.  Still think wordperfect was the best
DOS wordprocessor on the market.

--- "Page, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And the DEC rainbow shipped with both DOS and
> CP/M.
> 
> Nasty little thing.
> I built a billing system for a telephone company on
> them using Dbase II.
> We had to keep 10 sets of backs. We each had our own
> and then on was left with the system.  We kept 10
> because we would sometimes go through a lot of them
> before we could get a good restore.  We swore they
> had a built in "fry disk at random" command.
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