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My first time

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Customer asked me to remove HDD from some old computers so she could toss them.
Took care of the ones in the 'office' room...
Then she said she had some downstairs...
My first time physically seeing these old drives
PII, P3, Cellys, Vias
 

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2 things to do with those:
1. Wipe them and sell them for use in retro rigs (If your customer is ok with it)
2. Take them apart and get the magnets and platters out, then play with them. (If your customer wants the drives destroyed)

edit: Actually those first two IBM drives are probably either too old or too new to be of much interest. Really early DOS stuff sometimes needs an original IBM PC equivalent or it runs too fast. When I was a kid we had a couple games that were unplayable on a 386sx even with turbo off. They just ran too fast. Those would need MFM drives. 80MB is probably PATA. Once you get past those early DOS games the "too fast" problem pretty much goes away since game devs had to deal with a mix of CPU models and clock speeds and the games will run just fine on a Pentium. By that time 80MB was tiny.
 
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Your customer must've been an IBM engineer or the Napster kid ( i still hold a grudge on Metallica ). Thousands of dollars in very old and niche hardware
 
WD-380S 80MB was in the first Windows PC my parents bought in 1992. My dad made me mow the lawn for a month to buy a 400MB hard drive a couple years later. Thanks for posting!
 
I have some old drives but dang these are much older than what I have. Nice walk down memory lane. Thanks for the walk
 
They could have very well retained data. The one time I had to take out a 200 MB Caviar out of my dad's old office PC, I was able to connect it via a USB bridge, and it worked mostly fine. I was able to take off most, if not all, files.
 
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