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In article <240@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I once shared a room in Boston with a QA person from Leading Edge (we
>were there for a SF convention). He was telling me about the meeting at
>which LE evaluated the IOMEGA storage system...
[...]
>  Salesman takes out a cartridge and holds it up. "These units are shock
>resistant," he says, and scales it across the room like a frisbee.
>"Being sealed when not in use they are (kicks the cartridge back across
>the room) dust resistant."
[...]
>" And of course, even when running, the unit is (lifts the front of
>the case about 6 inches and drops it back on the table) still shock
>resistant."

>  I'm told that the reactions were such total disbelief that some people
>refused to believe that there wasn't some trick involved.

I did a Beta site evaluation of their first drive, and enjoyed dropping it
while it was accessing (there would be a couple of seconds delay while the
drive recovered!). When their engineer visited to drop off the unit, he wanted
to do the standard shock demo, which included blowing cigarette smoke on the
running drive, but neither he nor any of us smoked!

Tom Almy
to...@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply

P.S. BTW, as a technical aside, while most people thought these drives were
slow, they could operate at standard hd speeds if full track buffering and a
DMA SCSI controller was used (I tested the drive under CP/M 86 on an S-100
system). The servo controlled heads would have to reseek before every read,
so the full track buffering was a must, otherwise performance was about 2x an
8" DSDD floppy.