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The South Vintage hard disks (again)

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famicomaster2

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I originally made this account to find vintage hard disks, and here I am again back for more. I actually had a really pleasant experience the first time around, I'm not sure why I never came back, but in talking with someone about repairing a drive I realize that there are less and less people who want to put up with such devices in vintage machines and that many of them are probably sitting collecting dust or waiting to be recycled. I want to give them a home. I've got lots of experience reviving drives from the dead, and I'd be interested even in "dead" drives for reasonable enough money.

If anyone has MFM, RLL, or ESDI drives (The two ribbon interfaces) unwanted, I would be interested in taking them off your hands. I am also interested in some early ATA/SCSI drives and other devices such as hard cards if offered. All drives accepted, all offers considered. Only stipulations are that you must be willing to ship to the southeastern USA, specifically central Alabama, and must be willing to accept PayPal.
I am happy to pay for shipping.

Of particular interest to me are a few of the following:
Kalok/Xebec
CMI
MiniScribe
Daeyoung
Lapine/Kyocera

For drives of these makes and some other particular models I would be very willing to pay more.

Like I said so long ago, I live by the words "Anything's worth $20," so if you're willing to part with it for under 20 bucks, I'll probably take it off your hands.

Feel free to post in this thread or to send me a direct message. Thank you very much for your time.
 
Heh, I made my account for the same purpose :p

What kind of ATA drive most tickles your fancy? I like to think I have a large collection, including a couple of Quantum Bigfoots
 
ST251 said:
Heh, I made my account for the same purpose :p

What kind of ATA drive most tickles your fancy? I like to think I have a large collection, including a couple of Quantum Bigfoots
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I rather enjoy very early ATA drives, think "WD93044A" and "Kyocera KC-40GA" type of deal. Anything that doesn't use a rotary voice coil is of immediate interest, rotary band stepper (Kalok Octagon KL-320, Seagate ST-251) or rack and pinion linear stepper (Miniscribe 3650, Seagate ST-212) or linear voice coil (Microscience HH 1050, Seagate ST-4038) are all high on my list. Unusual designs are always my favorite.

All that said, for the right price I'm interested in basically anything working or non working if it's before about 2004.
 
famicomaster2 said:
I rather enjoy very early ATA drives, think "WD93044A" and "Kyocera KC-40GA" type of deal. Anything that doesn't use a rotary voice coil is of immediate interest, rotary band stepper (Kalok Octagon KL-320, Seagate ST-251) or rack and pinion linear stepper (Miniscribe 3650, Seagate ST-212) or linear voice coil (Microscience HH 1050, Seagate ST-4038) are all high on my list. Unusual designs are always my favorite.

All that said, for the right price I'm interested in basically anything working or non working if it's before about 2004.
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I took a look around and found a drive that I had forgotten that I owned. It's a WD93028-X 8-bit IDE drive. I own nothing that it would operate with. It was dead with a frozen stepper motor when I got it and I freed it up but I have no way to test that the drive is actually working other than the seek test that can be ran with the jumper (it doesn't error out anymore).


no, nobody's ripping my only Kalok or my ST-251s out of my hands :p
 
Pff, I have no interest in taking you ST-251s, got plenty enough of those (Though I would take more for cheap).

I actually recently completed my Kalok Octagon lineup! Every model in the range but two, the KL-330 (the RLL certified KL-320, which is hideously expensive and exactly the same other than the stickers), and the KL-341 (the SCSI-1 version of the KL-343, which I have never seen a single photo of and only seen mention in a few known unreliable sources). This includes the Xebec drives, too.

If you don't want said WD93028, how much are you looking to get for it? I'd be interested.


I should mention, I'm also generally interested in the "weridos" or "underdogs" of the disk market, so stuff like Microscience, Teac, Micropolis, Priam, etc are always on my list regardless of how new they are.
 
If it sways anyone's mind, I suppose I can also pay via Venmo.

If it wasn't clear in the original post, $20 is not my price limit, I'm willing to pay more. I thought giving a bottom price might attract more offers of even broken drives!
 
famicomaster2 said:
Pff, I have no interest in taking you ST-251s, got plenty enough of those (Though I would take more for cheap).

I actually recently completed my Kalok Octagon lineup! Every model in the range but two, the KL-330 (the RLL certified KL-320, which is hideously expensive and exactly the same other than the stickers), and the KL-341 (the SCSI-1 version of the KL-343, which I have never seen a single photo of and only seen mention in a few known unreliable sources). This includes the Xebec drives, too.

If you don't want said WD93028, how much are you looking to get for it? I'd be interested.


I should mention, I'm also generally interested in the "weridos" or "underdogs" of the disk market, so stuff like Microscience, Teac, Micropolis, Priam, etc are always on my list regardless of how new they are.
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make an offer :p
 
barryp said:
Send me your address and I'll mail some PATA drives.
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I believe these are the drives you sent, they arrived safely today. Most of them work. Thanks much!
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Bump to say that I am still interested in buying drives, any make any model. Shoot me a message or make a post here and we'll work something out.
 
famicomaster2 said:
I should mention, I'm also generally interested in the "weridos" or "underdogs" of the disk market, so stuff like Microscience, Teac, Micropolis, Priam, etc are always on my list regardless of how new they are.
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I never considered Teac to be an underdog. They were a primary removable media company, and very dependable. At one point I even had a QIC drive of theirs. Micropolis however ... that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

I have several boxes of old drives. This will give me the impetus to get them backed up and cleared off if required. Do you have a minimum or maximum disc size that you would consider? I know you said nothing newer than 2004 and I can pretty much guarantee that won't be a problem.
 
RetroRow said:
I never considered Teac to be an underdog. They were a primary removable media company, and very dependable. At one point I even had a QIC drive of theirs. Micropolis however ... that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

I have several boxes of old drives. This will give me the impetus to get them backed up and cleared off if required. Do you have a minimum or maximum disc size that you would consider? I know you said nothing newer than 2004 and I can pretty much guarantee that won't be a problem.
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Well, how many Teac SD-380Hs did you ever see? I've personally only seen one. That is to say, fixed hard disks of theirs were certainly uncommon.

No maximum or minimum. If you've got some gigantic full height 37GB Seagate SCSI drive from the early 90s that's fine but I'm still just as happy with a 2MB Rodime RO101.

Lemme know what you've got, I'm happy to wipe anything if you don't have the equipment. Working or non working, I have the means to repair many older units.
 
famicomaster2 said:
Well, how many Teac SD-380Hs did you ever see? I've personally only seen one. That is to say, fixed hard disks of theirs were certainly uncommon.

No maximum or minimum. If you've got some gigantic full height 37GB Seagate SCSI drive from the early 90s that's fine but I'm still just as happy with a 2MB Rodime RO101.

Lemme know what you've got, I'm happy to wipe anything if you don't have the equipment. Working or non working, I have the means to repair many older units.
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Most of my stuff is from the early 90's up to about your cutoff when I worked for a few whitebox and used computer stores. In fact about 5 months ago I scrapped 5 of those 8.4G Seagates that had the rubber sleaves, only 2 were working, the rest the heads were not seeking and one had a true head crash complete with platter gouge.

I have the equipment and would love to downsize.
 
ST251 said:
do you still want that WD drive of mine
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I'd forgotten to message, my bad. Being an XT drive, probably not, since I could find no record of anyone getting one working with AT machines and I don't hardly own anything 8-bit.
Thanks though.

RetroRow said:
Most of my stuff is from the early 90's up to about your cutoff when I worked for a few whitebox and used computer stores. In fact about 5 months ago I scrapped 5 of those 8.4G Seagates that had the rubber sleaves, only 2 were working, the rest the heads were not seeking and one had a true head crash complete with platter gouge.

I have the equipment and would love to downsize.
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I see, got plenty of U4/U6/U10 etc drives with SeaShield like that. No big loss, I don't think. Those people making "art" with platters ought to use those instead. Saw an SA4001 torn apart for that! Ouch!

If you come across any interesting drives from that era, essentially "Not Seagate/WD/Conner" and the likes, let me know. Early 90s would probably be Microscience, Rodime, Micropolis, etc.
 
famicomaster2 said:
I originally made this account to find vintage hard disks, and here I am again back for more. I actually had a really pleasant experience the first time around, I'm not sure why I never came back, but in talking with someone about repairing a drive I realize that there are less and less people who want to put up with such devices in vintage machines and that many of them are probably sitting collecting dust or waiting to be recycled. I want to give them a home. I've got lots of experience reviving drives from the dead, and I'd be interested even in "dead" drives for reasonable enough money.

If anyone has MFM, RLL, or ESDI drives (The two ribbon interfaces) unwanted, I would be interested in taking them off your hands. I am also interested in some early ATA/SCSI drives and other devices such as hard cards if offered. All drives accepted, all offers considered. Only stipulations are that you must be willing to ship to the southeastern USA, specifically central Alabama, and must be willing to accept PayPal.
I am happy to pay for shipping.

Of particular interest to me are a few of the following:
Kalok/Xebec
CMI
MiniScribe
Daeyoung
Lapine/Kyocera

For drives of these makes and some other particular models I would be very willing to pay more.

Like I said so long ago, I live by the words "Anything's worth $20," so if you're willing to part with it for under 20 bucks, I'll probably take it off your hands.

Feel free to post in this thread or to send me a direct message. Thank you very much for your time.
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Hey people. New user but I wanted to mention I actually came across a Seagate ST-225 Hard Disk the other day if you're interested. It's in pretty bad shape but I think it's saveable. If you're interested in it I'll let it go cheap. Let me know. Thanks.
 
I have a couple of Teac Hdd's in a box somewhere, a 5 & 10Mb.
I worked for the distributor here, and they sold far more floppy's than hdd's or tape drives.
I also have an MT-2ST and a hdd/tape drive combo.
 
mark0x01 said:
I have a couple of Teac Hdd's in a box somewhere, a 5 & 10Mb.
I worked for the distributor here, and they sold far more floppy's than hdd's or tape drives.
I also have an MT-2ST and a hdd/tape drive combo.
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I'm not the original poster, but how much would you want for one of the TEACs
 
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