[conspire] Time flies

Mike Higashi mhigashi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 10:12:20 PST 2005


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:31:35 -0800, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey, I was able to figure out without thinking about it, that those
> should achieve their best and highest purpose as landfill.  But I had a
> momentary brain glitch when I was sorting the greater number of SCSI
> hard drives into 50-pin SCSI-2, 68-pin, and 80-pin (SCA) categories:
> 
> "Honey, what do you think?  Are a pair of slightly oversized Maxtor
> 340MB SCSI drives worth keeping?"  The answer, of course, is _no_.
> There's no conceivable reason to keep those, unless you really need a
> brick-shaped doorstop.

The one other person I can think of who might want these is Dr. Destructo.
(For the uninitiated, I'm referring to Hugh Daniel, who entertains kids at
science fiction conventions by letting them take apart electronic gadgets.
Hard drives, btw, have some super-powerful magnets inside, which make
neat toys.)

Mike




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