jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) (04/06/89)
Does any kind soul out there have a 20Meg hard disk that they would be willing to swap for a Gemini-10X printer? I made a similar swap a while ago to get a drive mech as the basis for a homebrew harddrive system but after spending all of my money on the case, pwr supply, host adaptor, Adaptec controller and misc junk, it turned out that the drive I was trading for was bad! Now I have everything I need but the drive mech itself and am I dissapointed! Anyway, I have a Gemini-10X printer (good, solid basic printer, Epson compatible but doesn't have a dedicated NLQ mode) which is perfect for fast drafts of programs and stuff. It uses easy to get (and cheap) typewriter ribbon and is a very nice little printer. I want to trade it for at least a 20Meg hard disk mechanism (can be full height). If no one has a 20Meg or bigger that they want to trade, how about "donating" that 10Meg unit that you've got sitting around since you upgraded to a larger drive? I'll pay shipping costs for the printer, and if someone wants to donate their 10Meg unit, I'll pay to ship it! Please help me, I'm sure you can all sympathize with someone who came home today thinking I was going to have my long awaited hard disk tonight only to have my hopes dashed to the ground! ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Techology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================
jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) (04/07/89)
Oops! After a good nights sleep and a more positive outlook, I was able to find two bad resistor packs on the original Hard drive. Replaced them and everyting is ok! sooooo......... Forget that I ever asked anyone if they wanted to trade 20Meg<->Printer! However, if someone still wants to send me a 10Meg unit for free, I will gladly take it off of their hands!! :-) ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Techology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================
jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) (04/08/89)
I recently posted a couple of articles about my trials and tribulations with trying to get a hard drive system working. I have been made aware that my postings may have sounded like someone on the net had intentionally sent me a bad hard drive. NOT THE CASE AT ALL! I was trying (albeit not very well obviously) to vent my frustration at having been so close to having a long-awaited hard drive working and thinking that I might have to start almost from square one again. Fortunately , this wasn't the case and I was able to get the system working fine (hense my second posting). I have never had anything but complete cooperation from people on this net, and I am very grateful to the many people who have helped me out with helpful tips and/or replies to my various postings. Again, if I offended anyone, it was totally unintentional!! ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Techology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================
dma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (David Aharoni) (04/10/89)
I would like a disk drive also, however, if someone is real generous they can send me a 386 machine with 6 Meg of memory 150 Mb hard drive and a VGA monitor. That's all I'm asking for, not much AYE!