A Day of Fun With MFM Hard Drives!

Usually, I rotate through about four big projects, but lately, I’ve been falling behind with some basic housekeeping around the shop, so today, let’s do some of that housekeeping. I’ve been amassing MFM drives for about a year now, and it’s finally time to take them out, and see which ones work and which ones don’t. So, let’s bust out the Gesswein MFM Emulator and a screwdriver and make some questionable decisions!

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847

Thanks for watching!

Chapters
0:00 A day of housekeeping
3:15 How to use the Gesswein MFM emulator
8:46 Speedrunning time
11:20 Programmers make better lovers
16:03 The CDC Wren
19:01 The CDC Wren II
21:22 The Quantum RD52
25:39 The Seagate ST4097
28:04 A little bit of failure management
30:59 Turning a 10-minute job into a 2-day job
33:16 Baby bunny!