[Coco] [Color Computer] Hard Drives

[Sean]

Personally, and not trying to kill any sales, but I'd say it's
probably a better idea to go with the new DrivePak or DriveWire than
trying to use 25 year old hard drives...  Talk about gambling with
data retention!


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Charles Richmond <cybercunx at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm in the Dallas, TX area. My wife would *not* let me have a drive,
> but if you were close, I might want to come by and look...  :-) I've
> seen some in an old Radio Shack catalog, and one of  these "shoe box"
> drives cost $3000!!!
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 8:50 AM, FRANK GOTTSCHALK wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Charles,
>> I think those drives should be worth $50 ea +S&H. What you think?
>> I'm in South CA. Where you?
>>
>> HAVE A GOOD DAY.
>> Frank G.
>>
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