Originally Posted by
BigLar
Yeah ... probably an MFM drive. Good luck in finding one of them, although I did sell a pair of ST-225's a couple of weeks ago. 20 MB. Wow!.
I also unloaded a bunch of ESDI drives, but they were in the 300-600MB category.
I don't know if any of them worked. Wonder what these people are doing with them; the bidding was rather spirited.
Edit:I remember now: it was three ST-225's.
There are a lot of embedded systems we see running everything from factory machinery to POS systems, to ATMs (can you say OS/2 Warp) that use these old components. Most aren't Internet connected so no one ever worried about service packs or end of life on software and often it is far cheaper to source parts than forklift out these old systems. We just had someone asking for 80MB yes, "MB" drives for an HP system. Apparently these things are the size of a file cabinet drawer and run on 220V, at least they aren't water cooled...