On 9/6/05, ALFRED JOHNSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixing hard drives by freezing them in your freezer dates back at > least several decades that I'm aware of. It is temporary of course > and meant to help you recover the data on your hard disk. --- Al Johnson
But then, 20-25 years ago personally owned hard drives were pretty rare beasts. Back then a 5-10 MB drive cost in the thousands of dollars. I remember being very envious of a buddy back then who had the first hard drive I'd seen outside of a business or university. It was a 5MB Apple Profile for his Apple ][. I'm amazed at how affordable peripherals have become, particularly things like drives and scanners where they can't use the gillette* business model like they can with printers. *Give away the razor handle and sell the blades. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
