In message , at 14:20:35 on
Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jules Richardson
remarked:
(and remember the days when you had to reformat the drive if you changed
its orientation, as otherwise it'd start spewing out errors all over the
place? :-)

No, I don't remember that, and I go back all the way to 1980 and drives
that were 10MB per platter.
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Roland Perry