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To: Moe B. Loney who wrote (7001)	8/11/1998 12:40:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

I agree 200%. The drives are pure garbage. Come to think of it the second drive I got had to have died from a bent head. When they work they are great aren't they? When they die, which is often, they are bad too. And when they do, it's not like you can ever get the data off them, as the damaged disk cannot be put into a working drive ever again. It really too bad. Good engineering.. great idea.. up to a point ... but like many North American companies that have ideas their implementation is short on research and lab trials. Can you imagine these devices passing UIL, ULC or consumer reports? I can see why they get rave reviews in the magazines. They are not there long enough to cause problems. I would like to see what Jerry Pournelle of Byte magazine says about his 4th month with a Sparq drive or 500th file transfer with a zip drive. Anybody got any trials with the CD Writers? I wanted to get a HP rewritable for backup but it would not boot under Linux so I passed. I did not want to be a slave to WIN95 tech. I know I could solve their head problems so they would never crash but I despair of getting the patent approved. Even a patent is a license to steal in Asia. Is there anyone out there who would like to manufacture a non crashable head? These you could throw off high buildings and you could probably still read them. The idea is a stationary platter and a stationary head. You can only read one byte but it never erases. When you want more bytes you crank it by hand. After 1000 spins it disgorges all its data. Now why would that be longer than waiting 1.5 hours to backup a HD the conventional tape way? Another one is a the paper platter. High power micro laser burns the data in plain English onto photosensitive paper that is developed by a chemical wiper. It uses an electron microscope to read the data. You never erase the data but just write real small. I figure with the right laser ultra focused you could write the whole bible on the head of a pin. EC<:-}