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Downtown Doug Brown » The gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives

As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. What I’m about to describe is already common knowledge in the vintage computing world, but I thought it would be fun to share my take on it anyway. What I’m talking about is how a lot of these hard drives just refuse to work anymore. This is very common with old Quantum ProD...

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