HDs and a quick OT question ???

[William Wood]

Say Folks

   Those HDs are worth taking apart too if they are shot

or say too old to want to mess with.  Not only do they have 

the stepper motors and voice coil goodies just mentioned

but they have VERY good magnets that are well worth the 

efforts involved in taking them apart.  The disks make for

good wall hangings or '60s style mobiles that do a great 

job of catching the sun and other lighting : )

   My OT question is a few friends and I are sharing Old 

Time Radio, Old Time TV and such files and I would like 

to find a great service, or software that would facilitate this
effort of ours a bit better or cheeper.  One of our drawbacks,

is some are using LINUX, some Mac and some Windows.

These guys are from all over, and we have used Drop Box 

a bit, 4Share, Sendspace and a few others, we have been 

experimenting most of last year, and just now have decided 

to at least for the most part eliminate RapidShare (SP)

for various reasons...

   I'm hoping one of these days to find a cross platform program

that would work like the older FTP sites...   I'm also about as 

dumb as a rock when it comes to using those HUBs, online

usenet groups and the like.  Anyone know of a program like

this???

Thanks for the bandwidth

Hope Everyone's New Year goes GREAT!!!

Cheers

Bill

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[MatthewMetzger]

I didn't know that hard disks had stepper motors in them. I'd enjoy
connecting with you about them. I have a whole stack of dead hard
disk. It'd be great to find projects that could use their parts.

Hope to see you at the meeting tonight.

Matthew
Orange Computer
http://orangeworkslax.org/

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[Pete_Gruendeman]

Hi to All:
     Hard discs with stepper motors have not been common for a long time.  I am not sure that any HDs based on 3.5" discs ever had steppers but some of the 5.25" discs did.  This would be those that were the size of a shoe box but rated for 10-40Mb.  The discs since then have what is called "voice coil" powered arms to move the heads.  These drives still have neat magnets in them but no stepper motors.

           Pete