As has been pointed out to me by others, this 2010 date refers to the
HP1000 world. None the less, an item has value because others want it,
regardless of whether it is supported on the 9K, 3K or 1K platform.

Paul Courry



At 09:29 AM 9/10/98 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>     >Ahem, a small point of information:
>
>     >HP is committed to supporting these drives until 2010 according to my
>     >sources. This should give them *some* value in the next 12 years for
>     >parts if nothing else.
>
>     I'm not knocking your source since the information you were given
>     could have been the result of some special deal but, according to the
>     HP Corporate Price List, the pertinent support dates for the Eagle
>     drives are as follows:
>
>     Disk Product#      Intro Date      Obsol Date      End of Support
>     -------------      ----------      ----------      --------------
>     7937H              11/1/86         10/1/90         4/30/01
>
>     7937XP             11/1/86         10/1/90         4/30/01
>
>     7937FL             5/1/88          10/1/90         4/30/01
>
>
>     Jon Broz
>     HP Cleveland
>
>     "All opinions/comments are mine...not necessarily HP's"
>
>