[wrycoder]

1964, IBM 1620, 1311 drive. McCracken text.

I remember the day the prof was late to class and came in looking much the worse for wear. The drive had experienced a head crash.

[gnufx]

Thanks from those of us feeling relatively young for once, even if we have read McCracken.

The best failure I know was due to beer fermenting in the warm space above the fancy disk of an old Sigma 3; with hilarious consequences. No opportunity to get worse for wear from that batch, obviously.