Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hello Roy.

 MK> 29 Aug 03 20:01, you wrote to me:

 RT> Yeah,  but we're talking stuff under 1G here...

 MK> I just talked to a guy who bought a 1.6G for $5 - he thinks it is
 MK> but wants me to check the geometry etc for him.  Although I haven't
 MK> looked at it yet I thought $5 sounded like a fair price ... if it
 MK> works that is.  That's two CDs byte-wise plus change.  It would
 MK> look good in my slidey tray thingy.  :-)

Not bad.  Right now I'm seeing stuff under 1G selling for around that
price.  I was real tempted,  last time I was in that store,  to snag a few
of those under-1G drives just to have on hand for messing around.  But then
I already have a few of those smaller drives on hand here,  and don't
really *need* any more.  Maybe if I wait a while the price will drop some
more.  :-)  OTOH,  maybe they'll be gone,  but that's no big deal one way
or the other.

 RT> The "sweet spot" (as I saw that break point described on one page
 RT> today) seems to be in the 60G or 80G units,  go bigger than that and
 RT> you end up paying more per GB.

 MK> Ah!  I haven't checked lately.  Sounds about right.

 RT> You and I are into some of the same "junk",  I think.  :-)

 MK> There definetly is common ground except that I am attempting to 
 MK> move away from HDs, CD-ROMs, and the such.

I've noticed that.  But you have some specific projects in mind,  and I don't.

 MK> I am not there yet but that definetly seems to be the direction.  
 MK> In the meantime I like playing around with the "junk" to see what 
 MK> it can REALLY do and not what "they" claim it can or cannot do.

Just so.

 MK> Very interesting to see stuff happen that is impossible to many, 
 MK> many others.  A 40G harddrive on an socket 7 is a very good 
 MK> example.

What,  that's supposed to be a problem?  I'm aiming somewhat higher than
that,  here,  and on Socket 7 mostly.

 MK> Did I ever mention that I really like Slackware?  ;-)

Dunno if you had to.  :-)

I did finally hit their site yesterday,  but couldn't get a response out of
any of the download spots.  Too busy,  I guess.  I may have another go at
it later.  But then there's the details of upgrading,  etc. which we're
probably better off taking up elsewhere.

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