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    From BARRY MARTIN@454:3/105 to KY MOFFET on Sunday, June 07, 2015 16:49:00
    respond in a timely manner, hence the "busy" thing.

    Based on what you described some sort of read/write/buffer failure seems
    to make sense. ...I'm tangentally thinking of solid state drives and
    how long they will last. (Probably not at all the same.)


    Which is amazing because if there's one place IBM failed
    spectacularly, it was in hard drives (remember the fractured
    platter issue?). This is the only live IBM HD I've ever seen!

    Wonder if they'd be interested in analyzing it to see what they did
    right, and compare to what failed in that era.


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