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I've got my fridge full of bills to pay attached to remind me when to do
that. Believe me, it's grand parents' legacy and it works!


El vie, 16 de dic. de 2022 1:03 p. m., Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

Sounds like a very attract-ive collection, Brad!

Vern

On 12/16/2022 12:41 PM, Brad Stone wrote:
I am, at the very least, going to keep the magnets from the hard
drives. I
bet they're whoppers compared to the PC ones.

I remember ripping apart an older box with huge 250mb (yes mb) drives. 4
platters in each, and I think 6 or 8 magnets each. That is what started
my
magnet collection.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:19 AM Javier Sanchez <
javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brad, I don't know if you saw recently on LinkedIn, someone having an
old
box like yours, I remember he took the box and turned it into a vase
table. And many peoples LOL and I replied "Can't live without seeing
them,
huh?". Better save the disks' magnets, they are really good!

El vie, 16 dic 2022 a las 10:00, Stephen Landess (<
steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:

I seem to recall someone from IBM indicating many years ago that 255
times
was the limit. That would be forever, in terms of any of our remaining
lifetimes.
255*70/365 = 48 years

Steve Landess
512-289-0387

Rob wrote:
Didn't IBM figure out some way to catch the reinstall every 70 days
trick?
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