23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
1:58 p.m.
On 3/24/06, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:05:09 -0800
jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote:
That's it! I *MUST* get a 9" disk!! :-)
(just to see a BA123 "walk") :-)
Heck why stop at 9"?
ooh now I remember, shipping and electricity :-{
there was a really nice little SMD 5 1/4"
drive that came out that we
had for a while too, which name escapes me too.
I have a 1 GB SMD 5 1/4"
drive from Seagate. I should get it hooked up
to my PDP-11/73. But, on the other side, the 9" NEC SMD disk is so much
nicer. Especially the sound. When the heads move it sounds like someone
is hiting the platers with a hamer. The backstroke from the moving head
assembly is stong enough to get a DEC BA123 moving.
(Disk + BA123 = 100 kg) :-)
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