and hell too pay if you forgot to wind the foot stands down .. watch the
drive roll across the floor .. and if you did forget the stands pray the
HPIB cable was securely attached.

Mind you the bonus side from a tuning point of view was that the drive that
'bumped' into the side of the computer room wall was the one you targeted to
do some file balancing on!


Regards
Stuart Gibson
Midrange Systems

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> ----------
> From:         Jeff Kell[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Jeff Kell
> Sent:         Friday, 9 October 1998 13:30
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: HP7925
>
> Tracy Johnson wrote:
> >
> > One thing that was cool about the HP7925 (about 25MB I think), what
> > that it had a window on top.  We had one just sitting around
> > disconnected but still in the row with the HP7933's.  We removed the
> > disk pack and had arranged some old clothes into a neat circle around
> > the edge...
>
> And for bonus points, who remembers SLEUTH (on the standalone diagnostic
> tapes) where you could load up a "butterfly seek" test going from the
> innermost cylinder, outermost cylinder, IC+1, OC-1, IC+2, OC-2, etc?
> You could watch the action with the 7925 :-)  SLEUTH was a wicked tool,
> sort of a BASIC programming language for disc drive sadists :-)
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
>