During a recent conversation, a friend made the comment "When Pigs Fly" during a discussion about an unimportant topic (unimportant to this story that is) and for some reason, this memory popped into my mind.

I was a HP's Disc Memory Division in Boise, ID when the 7933/5 was designed and introduced in the early 1980's.
The story goes (and is attested to by several of my co-workers at the time) that a manager, upon hearing of the plans to make the disc pack removable, proclaimed this plan would work, "When Pigs Fly"!  Hence there is etched into one of the PC Boards of the 7933/5 drives a little pig with wings.   I've decided that I'd like to have one of these boards to go with some of my other "conversation pieces".  I had (and disassembled) several of these drives over the years, and have no idea why I didn't keep one of these boards.  But I didn't.

If anyone has a 7933/5 they want to get rid of, please let me know and I'll see what can be arranged.


Terry W. Simpkins
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Measurement Specialties, Inc.
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