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rzzzt · 2025-03-03T00:18:35 1740961115

Colin from "This Does Not Compute" used the same Kapton tape fix on an Apple tablet prototype: https://youtu.be/OM64l8tZSwY?t=293

I was wondering whether the flat tape makes some cylinders physically inaccessible but it seems like this is not an issue.

qingcharles · 2025-03-03T08:49:23 1740991763

Wow, that was my first PC HDD. (I had a 10MB HDD in my Sirius 1 before that)

Bought at an Egghead somewhere the Computer Museum in Boston while on vacation from the UK -- about half the price of something similar in England at the time due to exchange rate.