|  | Posted by NunYa Bidness on 10/04/83 11:33 
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:32:46 -0500, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> Gaveus:
 
 >Yes, they were, and they were made to be stored in any orientation, but
 >the reality was that true long-term storage (e.g., 1-3 years) did cause
 >older drives to have lubricants shift in such a way that startup wasn't
 >possible without manual intervention (i.e., open the top and spin the
 >disc...once you did that, the drives worked fine).
 
 Lubricants?  They had, and still have dry bearings.  In the arctic,
 a drive fails due to condensation effects and electrical failure,
 typically long before any mechanical effect.
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