[Info-vax] Nemonix & VSI Press release

[Bob Koehler]

In article <cnllutFdmrtU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> When I hear people talking about being careful to not shake their laptop
> too hard so the drive doesn't break it makes me laugh.  I remember driving
> back from New Jersey with a dozen RA drives in the back of my Volvo Station
> Wagon bouncing on the suspension stops because it was so overloaded.  :-)
> Oh yeah.....  All of them still worked fine when I got them here.  Some
> may still be working today up in Bufallo.
> 
> I always suspected that I could have dropped one out the third floor window
> and it would still have worked.  Nobody built hardware like DEC.

   Every hard drive I've ever used has survived being shipped at least
   in part in the back of an 18-wheel truck.  So has just about
   everything else I own.

   They're just not quite as fragile as some folks think.