On Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:31:29 -0800 
 "Michael Vanloon (Exchange)" <mvanloon@wspu.MICROSOFT.com> wrote:

 > You might try using one of them 7200 rpm 4GB drives...  You could probably
 > have a find fish fry on one of them.

If you're talking about any of the Seagate Barracuda family, not only 
can you fry fish, but you can also melt the coating on wires inside the 
unit, often leading to seriously nasty head crashes (like, _dents_ in the 
platter to go with the gouges).  I can't even begin to count the number 
of those things we've sent back ...

 > Of course, if you wanted to emulate the sound of a berserk popcorn popper,
 > you might want to stick with the DEC drives in the older Alphas...

Heh ... I have a frient who had this DEC drive in a Sun IPC ... It was 
really amusing sitting in the office an hearing this _tiny_ little box 
make all that noise ... the dailies were a nightmare if you were at the 
office late :-)

"And now for something completely different..."

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