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This section features all sorts of posts related to technology or random elements of interest. This includes subjects such as software, computing equipment, electrical test gear, etc. For the most part, posts offered here will not relate to hard drive content.

Posts here are unscheduled, thus are uploaded at random.

Fujitsu MCM3130AP 1.3GB Magneto-optical (MO) Disc Drive (2002)

by BananaHDD
The Fujitsu MCM3130AP is an internal 3.5″ magneto-optical disc drive, produced from 2002-2003. As Fujitsu’s own documentation aptly states, these “take Fujitsu’s magneto-optical (MO) technology to new levels with its 640MB and 1.3GB drives”. While in both the USA & Europe magneto-optical media never really took off as well as it did elsewhere, this unit ... Read More

Windows 95 Wallpapers – Sharp Mebius OEM Backgrounds (1996)

by BananaHDD
Rummaging through old hard drives from the 90’s and early 2000’s sometimes offers interesting results. A previous post covering a Fujitsu M2724TAM 1.6GB hard drive from 1997 revealed a Sharp OEM installation of Windows 95. The machine was a Sharp Mebius laptop of some sort, a domestically available unit within Japan, with the installation notably ... Read More