[vcf-midatlantic] Hard drive art

[Brian Brubaker]

I would love any and all crashed platters,  donations would be great,  but
I'm happy to pay for them as well.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 3:00 AM Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> If we have any crashed/irreparable hard drives around, would you be
> interested in them for parts? The electronic bits might be useful for
> people repairing other drives, but if the platters are not fixable, I
> don't have any issues personally donating them for art. (I actually sort
> of want to make a set of wind chimes myself out of some wrecked late
> 80s/early 90s 3.5 hard drives, but I need to make sure they're well and
> truly dead first. I have one quantum fireball where the big control chip
> lived up to its name, but the platters might still be good so I don't
> know...)
>
> On 4/17/2019 7:05 PM, Brian Brubaker via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > The 4 27" platters I got , I'm 99" sure someone previously removed the
> top
> > layer from them as they now look silver not like the one in the link
> > included below. My plan is to make 4 tables out of them, similar to the
> one
> > in the link below, but with my own art added on top, in a clear resin
> > epoxy.
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://stupidevilbastard.com/2005/11/old_hard_drive_platter_made_into_table/&ved=2ahUKEwi9rtjEndjhAhWKmeAKHUPBAewQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0yhgvX93uO1BTSKKzdyrse
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 12:47 PM Brian Brubaker <brianbrubaker at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I definitely buy drives from ebay, and sometimes the drives are
> >> working. The two rarest drives/platters I've bought were a .85" drive,
> >> aka the smallest drive with moving parts, and 4 27" platters from an
> >> IBM 350. The majority of the drives I've bought are sold as scrap, the
> >> small percentage of larger industrial drives most all came from
> >> California. Most of these larger drives were listed for sale on e-mail
> >> for 6+ months, occasionally lowering their prices to a point where I
> >> could justify buying them. The other times I made offers and they
> >> accepted. Most of the time I ended up spending more on shipping then
> >> the drives themselves.
> >>
> >> I started making my art out of a love of hard drives, I shared it here
> >> with the thought of all people this group might be able to appreciate
> >> what I'm trying to do. If I was wrong, I won't bother the group again.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:15 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic
> >> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    I understood from one of his posts that he was purchasing drives on
> >>> the market, for sometimes serious money.  If I misinterpreted his
> >>> statement, please let me know, in which case I will apologize and move
> >> on.
> >>>              -Dave
> >>>
> >>> On 4/17/19 10:54 AM, Drew Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >>>> No need to be mean to the guy.  If he's using scrap parts then I don't
> >> see
> >>>> what the big issue is.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:24 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
> >>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On April 16, 2019 4:10:56 PM Brian Brubaker <brianbrubaker at gmail.com
> >
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> It seems you've missed my intentions, all I'll say is I thought of
> >> all
> >>>>>> people you all could appreciate my art, if I was wrong, I'm very
> >> sorry
> >>>>>> to have bothered you.
> >>>>>    I'm sure you are a talented artist.  I for one would likely
> >> appreciate
> >>>>> your art a lot more if you didn't destroy what I've worked for years
> >> trying
> >>>>> to preserve when you create it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    At the very least you could learn something from the reactions
> >> you've
> >>>>> gotten, but you don't seem to have that capacity either.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Before you start calling someone unintelligent you might want to
> >> avoid
> >>>>>> threats in a digital medium.
> >>>>>    Predictable.  New to the net, too, I see.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   ...and, I take that as a threat!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>              -Dave
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> >>>>> New Kensington, PA
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> >>> New Kensington, PA
> > .
> >
>
> --
> Jonathan Gevaryahu
> jgevaryahu at gmail.com
> jgevaryahu at hotmail.com
>
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