#: 11416 S15/Hot Topics
    20-Jul-91  20:32:00
Sb: #11392-MM/1 delivery
Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004

Paul,

It's HERE.  The MM/1 arrived Thursday. I am a "happy camper".  Re the message
on your office phone, the 3.5 in high density drive that came with it was DEAD.
It took me a while to make sure I didn't have some jumper in the wrong place
(tried everything but exorcism and explosives) I bought another drive (I had
planned to get a second one anyway) - the second drive worked, but wouldn't get
all the way through a FORMAT - hung up at cluster 58h - sometimes a little
further.  Now I was sure I had fouled up somewhere (nobody gets TWO bad drives
in a row, right?). More checking.  After several hours, I took BOTH drives to
my local PC guy and hooked them to a working "286".  Sure enough, first one
DEAD, second one wouldn't format.  Third drive did it.  Just finished making
backups of all the distribution disks so I can do some serious fiddling. Wanted
to use the MM/1 to post this message, but the 9 to 25 pin Rs-232 adaptor I have
is the wrong gender (Murphy is with me) - I'll get one tommorrow. This message
complements of my faithful old Tandy 2000 - can't use the COCO either, it lost
its monitor to the MM/1.  I'd swear I heard the COCO whimper when I swiped it's
Magnavox - I may have to get it one of those close-out CM-8s to console it. 
Back to my new toy.

Later,

Oh, I almost forgot, where do I ship that DEAD drive?

John Wainwright