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Started by jo... John Shipman
Sun, 29 Apr 1990 02:29
Re: Walking drives (was Re: Deadly instructions and hardware damage)
Author: jo... John Shipman
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 1990 02:29
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 1990 02:29
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David A. Rochberg (dar8808@cec2.UUCP) writes: +-- | A version of the hacker purity test includes the question | ``Have you ever `walked' a drive?'' +-- The front section of the 360/44 was extremely top-heavy, since it had two early ``pizza pack'' drives and a front panel in the top half, and nothing in the bottom half but one circuit board. I heard that the IBM system integration people had once been running a diagnostic that seeked from track 0 to 202 on both drives at once, and the whole works tipped over. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/jo...@jupiter.nmt.edu ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber
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