For what it's worth, when I was a kid (mid-50's), the city of Detroit told the guy across the street that he could no longer keep his mule in his garage (since it had a dirt floor and a mule I guess technically it was a stable). Oh yes they made him put in a concrete floor with rat walls too.
It was actually something of a historical event, as he was the last of the old junk men who went through the alleys of Detroit in their mule drawn wagons picking up anything they thought they could sell at the scrap yard. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Bob Sullivan wrote: > And we had to shovel a path too! > > On 6/27/07, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Uphill in both directions through the snow! >> >> --- Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>> Of course, that was like a 5MB drive made of about >>> ten platters, >>> each something like 10-12" across. Sprinkle some >>> iron filings on the >>> platter and you could almost read the bits with the >>> naked eye.<< >>> >>> Yeah, that's how we used to read 'em in the old >>> days! >>> I thought it was a pizza oven the first time I >>> encountered one. >>> >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/25/07, Doug Franklin >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> graywolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Still I am interested in how often folks here >>> have experienced >>>>> hard-drive failure, and with which type of drive >>> (IDE, SATA, >>>>> SCSI, other), and anyone else's experience with >>> RAID systems. >>>> I've experienced nearly every type of failure on >>> every brand and type of >>>> "hard disk" that's existed since some time in the >>> 1970s. Anything will >>>> fall over if you push on it hard enough. >>>> >>>> I was a co-op student for IBM when PC AT (or was >>> it PC XT) 5.25" 10MB or >>>> 20MB drives were dropping like flies ... literally >>> by the train-car >>>> load. IIRC, the DOA rate was on the order of >>> 20-30% and the "dead after >>>> a month" rate was twice that. It was so bad that >>> our divisional >>>> director rammed through "blue labeling" of a >>> different manufacturer's >>>> drive just for our division's customers. Did the >>> same thing with >>>> Novell's NetWare when LAN Man was such a joke (ca. >>> 1984). >>>> Had some pretty funny, nearly serious >>> non-failures, too. Like the day I >>>> accidentally spilled a fresh six-ounce cup of >>> coffee, one cream, two >>>> sugars, into an open spindle drive. I was >>> cleaning sticky goo out of >>>> the housing for weeks, but the platters and >>> mechanicals never skipped a >>>> beat. Of course, that was like a 5MB drive made >>> of about ten platters, >>>> each something like 10-12" across. Sprinkle some >>> iron filings on the >>>> platter and you could almost read the bits with >>> the naked eye. >>>> -- >>>> Thanks, >>>> DougF (KG4LMZ) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all >> the tools to get online. >> http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
