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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:46:06 GMT, "Greg Major" <gmajor@houston.rr.com>
wrote:

>Here's something fun and geeky to do with old, trash hard drives... make a
>windchime! Here's what you do:
>
>1. Disassemble the drive down to the platters (they're what you want). Try
>not to scratch them. It goes without saying, but different size platters
>result in higher/lower pitched chimes. Mix 'em up!
>2. Drill a tiny hole towards the top of three or more platters.
>3. String it up with fishing line or equivalent.

I'd have needed a steel hawser !

>4. Hang 'em from something. Old hardware works/looks the best.
>

A mate of mine used a DEC drive platter as a coffe table

>I've got a great one that used to hang in the test lab at work. Three
>platters hanging from a garage sale TRS-80. What a hoot! Best of all, the
>chime sound is actually pleasing to the ear!
>
>-Greg
>
>"Ian Staples" <ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid> wrote in message
>news:8icmc6$j3o$2@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...
>> In article <IS225.26$tQ.9871@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net>,
>> "Michael Mattias" <michael.mattias@gte.net> wrote:
>> >J French <jerry@iss.u-net.com> wrote in message
>> >news:39489819.3688569@news.u-net.com...
>> >> Sounds like my development machine in 1986 - it was such a jump from
>> >> an XT - I only ditched the thing in 1996
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 05:50:05 GMT, Tim Chorle
>> >> <timsuniverse@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I agree, I am really just so curious as to why there is a large MFM
>> >> >hard drive inside a machine that norton utilities reports a a 6 mhz
>> >> >286, with a 320k 5 1/4 drive, that boots into an anchient basic rom!
>> >> >It's one of the strangest setups I've ever seen, even if it is just
>> >> >pure garbage. There was dust balls inside it thicker then golf balls,
>> >> >by all accounts it should have caught on fire. Though it's such a boat
>> >> >anchor, I doubt fire could harm it :)
>> >
>> >Hmmm, my 6Mhz 286 (it was actually a dual-speed 4.77/6Mhz) DID servive a
>> >fire, in 1993.
>> >
>> >Then the power supply failed in 1994. Strangest failure I've ever seen: I
>> >was sitting at my desk working on something, and while I was taking a
>> >ten-second break from typing to record some test results, the screen just
>> >quietly went black and the machine plumb stopped. It never ran again.
>Sic
>> >transit gloria.
>>
>> Our old SR-72, the first "PC" we had for common use (and now
>> buried with due formality and appropriate wake in the back
>> yard) once had a short from the *mains* switch onto the case.
>>
>> Our botanist was using it at the time (DataStar + ReportStar for
>> those of you who were around in the days of CP/M applications)
>> and got a hell of a fright when the thing went "bang" with a
>> flash and a cloud of vaporised metal, and a neat hole appeared
>> in the casing.  Still worked once the switch was fixed though,
>> and served us for a few years after.
>>
>> When the end came, due to obsolescence rather than failure, we
>> considered salvaging the drive motors (twin 8" drives) to make
>> a couple of electric lawn mowers.  ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,  Ian S.
>>
>> ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au
>>
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