Randy
>>Great Stuff. I used to have to upgrade power supplies in our PC's to be able to handle the new 20 meg drives.<<
At university we managed to buy a corporate IBM mini being retired, for 20 bucks and a sixpack of beer. It had a stacked Winchester platter and a precious hole-punched tape you needed to boot it up. To start it we had to send Ian Darroch down to the power room to hold down the circuit breaker as that Winchester needed a lot of juice and kept taking out the power. We got disciplined because the drive spinning up dimmed lights and sounded like a damaged flying saucer landing on the Human sciences I Lecture Theatre, the lecturer had to shout over it and it took weeks before they figured out what it was.
Ah, those were the days- when printing out an Alfred E Newman made of character @s was what we aspired to achieve.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
