And so begins the rest of my life.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by RonDent

After 42 years in the disk drive industry,

You'd have seen go from floppy to hard.

[ted]

Fantastic Ron!
I thought you might already be retired.
Thrilled to hear you will be at the track more.
What race tracks will you be at mostly? Bay area?
I'm in if it's sound free.
Big Willow for us this weekend.

Hope to see you waving a green flag and not a fishing pole.

[MBAtarga]

Originally Posted by wildthing

My first hard drive was 40MB.

My first IBM PC Clone (AT) had dual floppies! I did splurge for the extra 2Mhz processor buying the 10Mhz machine rather than the 8Mhz!

I couldn't even swing the $200 or so for a used 5MB drive at the swap meet.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

My first IBM PC Clone (AT) had dual floppies!

I've got the real deal IBM twin floppy machine in the attic. And the DOS book and the IBM book. I think I bet on the wrong horse If I had an Apple from the same era it would be worth something.

[GH85Carrera]

My first hard drive was a 10 MB drive in my 4.77 MHz PC, with DOS 2.1. About that time the local hard drive maker was eventually bought by Segate. They came in our photo studio pushing a small fridge sized piece of equipment that was a 1 GB hard drive, another employee was carrying a large box of 1.2 MB floppies that would be 1 GB of storage total, and the new 3.5 inch prototype 1 GB hard drive.

I remember drooling all over it, and thinking how there is no way I could ever fill up a full gigabyte!

We took photos of the drives for their advertising and internal publications. It was several years later before I got my first drive that was over a gigabyte. Now my several year old cell phone has 256 Gig of storage.

One of the engineers we worked with was the guy that wrote the firmware for the controller boards. He could almost "think" in assembly language. He was the guy you think of for the 1980s photo of a nerd-alpha geek.

[vash]

Congrats.

i'm too jealous to type anything more

[RonDent]

Originally Posted by rcooled

Congrats Ron! The 'Every-day-is-Saturday' lifestyle is hard to beat


Well, you can start with the Velocity Invitational at Laguna Seca coming up on Nov. 11-14th. And if you happen to be active or retired military, Friday the 12th, Veterans Day, is a freebee. Even if you're not a vet, you can still get Friday tix for free...no proof of vet status required.

https://velocityinvitational.com/

I'm already signed up. I'll be in the Starter's Stand. I volunteer as one of the Starter with San Fransisco Region of the SCCA.

[rfuerst911sc]

December it will be 4 years retired for me . I truly enjoy every day and miss nothing about work . It is a transition but you will learn to enjoy every day in a different way .

[RS America]

Ever thought of the "Ring"? I've shipped my RS America to Europe 3 times, 190 laps on the Ring 162 mph on the Autobahn. It's really quite easy. I'd vbe happy to share any info with you, costs, shipping company to use, Hotels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzPcRyTkZM&t=12s Discover Germany TV
https://studio.youtube.com/video/1Cr8bmBi3Ts/edit RS America on the Autobahn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/2010-2011_european_tour/albums some pictures I took

Let the Ring tickle your fantasies. My best was 12 laps in One Stint,

[RonDent]

Originally Posted by RS America

Ever thought of the "Ring"? I've shipped my RS America to Europe 3 times, 190 laps on the Ring 162 mph on the Autobahn. It's really quite easy. I'd vbe happy to share any info with you, costs, shipping company to use, Hotels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzPcRyTkZM&t=12s Discover Germany TV
https://studio.youtube.com/video/1Cr8bmBi3Ts/edit RS America on the Autobahn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/2010-2011_european_tour/albums some pictures I took

Let the Ring tickle your fantasies. My best was 12 laps in One Stint,

I have a bucket list of tracks to work (Starter);

• VIR
  
• Indy
  
• Long Beach
  
• Road America
  
• ...
  

I did get to check one item off my list this year. Back Up Starter for IMSA at Laguna Seca.

[cassisrot]

Congratulations. Have fun at all those tracks.

[aigel]

Congrats on the retirement. 42 years sounds like you already are late to the party!

On that note, doesn't the rest of our lives begin every day? No day will you wake up younger than the day before. So make use of it!

G

[peppy]

Congratulations!

[silverc4s]

Judging by your location, did you start at Seagate? How many merger / acquisitions have you seen?

[ted]

Originally Posted by RonDent

I'm already signed up. I'll be in the Starter's Stand. I volunteer as one of the Starter with San Fransisco Region of the SCCA.

It's pricey up there Ron, that event is $2k to enter 1 car, second car entered $1k.
So I stayed local this month.
That's more than Reunion.