Foolestroupe -

I can remember spending 10 hours per day for 3 days in a row trying to get an optimum interleave on my 30 MB hard drive. Now I've got several individual Word documents bigger than that.

Gibson's SpinRite was an essential tool too. It took about 3 months for the heads to bend enough to start missing bits. Being able to "reformat" (actually just "re-track") without moving the data saved millions of floppies.

I still remember the first time I saw the specs on the first "brand new" hard drive that used MFM-RLL and wasn't a scuzzy.

John