* Felix Miata
Liam Proven composed on 2018-11-02 18:40 (UTC+0100):
Carlos E. R. wrote: ...
The first hard disk I bought came with a bad sector list printed in paper by the manufacturer. All disks came with that at that time. It was 30 megabytes big, a huge disk at that time.
Well, the first one I used at work, yes. 20 MB and I added a 2nd 15MB drive to the machine for SCO Xenix 286.
But times have changed a lot. The last new disk I bought was a 1TB notebook hard disk, a quarter the size of a deck of cards.
This would need a pile of those Conner 225 ST-506 interface drives that I mentioned just now the size of (and a *lot* heavier than) a Space Shuttle to store an equivalent amount of data.
I still have the 5.8lb ST-506 30ms 1024 cyl 8 hd 17 sect Micropolis 85MB model 1335 from the external storage addon for the Altos Xenix 286 where I worked, thinking someday I'd run across a controller to match it to try to retrieve the scripts I wrote. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.
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