Hiyas.. I"m lookin for older, low-capacity IDE hraddrives for 386 sysems im
buildin myself.. if anyone can help, pls email me aegand@ebm.net.au -  im sure
we can work out a fair price and way of dealing it.. by LOW, i mean 100-500
MB....

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May not the shipping costs be a little much to get a really good deal though?
Perhaps there are stores local to you that would have what you're looking for.

i already fuckin walked the local commercial centre for an entire daay..they
all bein sluts..say its no good..then they go throw them away..
there MUST be someone on this system from australia..and better yet Canberra..

my...you really are a winner aren't you

Are you too good for a little "bin-diving"? If the store just throws them
away, root through their trash. Whatever you find is yours. Hell, I've built
whole computers from found hardware, you're just looking for a HDD. Shouldn't
be too difficult.

Toking - u mean 'weiner' right ????
wolf, i spend MANY hours out at the tip..thats where the current boxes came
from..bu they dont have drives i can use, or need.. only mfm shit..

no...I meant what I said

So do I understand right, that the drives go from being IDE to MFM if left
in the bin or tip too long?

That's a myth. Once a ide always an ide.  You can pull one from the trash and
use it.  If you're really in need of a HD i can sell you one for $200.00 plus
shipping and handling.  Email me at merlin17@grex.cyberspace.org

Well, before IDE there was ESDI, and MFM vs. RLL.

no they dont turn into mfm.. thery just seem to,.....disappear..before i can
get them. ive pulled apart countless machines out there, and thwey all have
either mfm drives, or an ide cable, wif a fresh scratch mark where someone
was there 2 minutes eralier.. its damn annoying..the worst thing i ever seen
wqwas a guy pick up a 586 tower and walk off eith it. 2 seconds before i got
to it.

merlinf FUCK for another 20$ i culd get a 3.2 gb drive.. if i needed it that
big, id get one. but i dont, so i wont. thanks anyway bud

Re #10: That's when you take one of those old MFM drives and whip it at his
head, knocking him unconcious and allowing you to grab the 586 tower. C'mon,
those old drives can weigh as much as 9 kilos, right? Survival of the fittest,
I say. (BTW, you don't live near Darwin, do you?) ;)

Sounds like you need to find a different dumpster site to dive.  Perhaps
one that is more isolated, or surrounded by richer people.  It's
possible the place you're currently dumpster diving has a policy that it
removes all IDE drives before discarding the remains - it's possible
they're being recycled into some other application (boot disks for
corporate machines?) where cheapness is more important than capacity.
It's certainly pretty common for repair places to salvage useable
components (such as memory) from dead machines.

Anyone know of an inexpensive source for ATA ("IDE") drives
of about 400Mb - 528Mb capacity?  Second-hand disks would be
fine.  I do a lot of voluntary work with non-profit
organisations who have to work with hand-me-down equipment,
some of which is limited to 528Mb by its firmware.

For the record, I don't need these any more.  If you happen
to have any 4+ Gbyte SCSI drives laying around though, I'm
interested.  5.25" full-height drives probably need not
apply (shipping, power, noise etc. ;-)

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