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Mickymoody
I used to manufacture hard drive systems, ie big boxes containing a PSU, controller card(s), and a harddisk, before PC's became big business, but for Atari and Amiga owners, would love to hear from anyone that had such a system...
Anyways, my job was to fit the controller, cabling and hdisk, test, and format it, and install software, and box it up, the PSU was pre-installed.
I used to deal with returns also. So one return had the power switch mounted on the front. Which we didn't supply. So removing the case, which had to slide off forwards, revealed a chocblock, to the new switch. Which prevented the lids removal.
NOW THE BRAINDEAD BIT; If it's through familiarity, or repetition, or boredom, which equal stupidity; I disconnected the chocblock, to release the lid, to get access to the workings, to leave two live wires poking about. No idea that it was still plugged in, no special trips in the workshop, so I dive in, and ZAP! My hand is thrown into an overhanging shelf, and the equal and opposite force of that throws my hand back onto the wire, ZZAP!! Crack! Another rabbit punch into the shelf above. Fortunately, that was enough, otherwise I'd be there to this day.
My hand looked like something that had been through a blender, both burned, and bruised.
And all that happens in a split second.
Seperately..we got a return one day...a nice shiny flightcase, with foam cut out to retain one of the hdisks that I built. But no details of a fault, no address, and no return address...The flightcase cost more than the hdisk..no idea who sent it..
So it was tested, it was formatted, but blank. No errors, nothing wrong, someone formatted it. Good to go.
Then a few months later, I gets an angry phone call, where's my effing music you loser, you steal from me!..and I'm like eh?
I'm getting verbal from the lead singer of UB40, that had their music stored on that harddisk.....while they were locked up for drugs on the Isle of Wight.
I also used to get anoymous phonecalls, from the devs, and manufacturers, playing one another off. Fishing for info. Bit like spying. Very covert, and exciting at 17.
Anyone has a harddisk system for an Atari or Amiga?
Anyways, my job was to fit the controller, cabling and hdisk, test, and format it, and install software, and box it up, the PSU was pre-installed.
I used to deal with returns also. So one return had the power switch mounted on the front. Which we didn't supply. So removing the case, which had to slide off forwards, revealed a chocblock, to the new switch. Which prevented the lids removal.
NOW THE BRAINDEAD BIT; If it's through familiarity, or repetition, or boredom, which equal stupidity; I disconnected the chocblock, to release the lid, to get access to the workings, to leave two live wires poking about. No idea that it was still plugged in, no special trips in the workshop, so I dive in, and ZAP! My hand is thrown into an overhanging shelf, and the equal and opposite force of that throws my hand back onto the wire, ZZAP!! Crack! Another rabbit punch into the shelf above. Fortunately, that was enough, otherwise I'd be there to this day.
My hand looked like something that had been through a blender, both burned, and bruised.
And all that happens in a split second.
Seperately..we got a return one day...a nice shiny flightcase, with foam cut out to retain one of the hdisks that I built. But no details of a fault, no address, and no return address...The flightcase cost more than the hdisk..no idea who sent it..
So it was tested, it was formatted, but blank. No errors, nothing wrong, someone formatted it. Good to go.
Then a few months later, I gets an angry phone call, where's my effing music you loser, you steal from me!..and I'm like eh?
I'm getting verbal from the lead singer of UB40, that had their music stored on that harddisk.....while they were locked up for drugs on the Isle of Wight.
I also used to get anoymous phonecalls, from the devs, and manufacturers, playing one another off. Fishing for info. Bit like spying. Very covert, and exciting at 17.
Anyone has a harddisk system for an Atari or Amiga?