Posted by NunYa Bidness on 11/15/83 11:33

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:32:46 -0500, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> Gave
us:

>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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