28 Aug
2015
28 Aug
'15
5:59 a.m.
On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:30 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
...
Well, other than the Model I (CADET) typewriter acting as if it were going to fly apart
at any time, the 1311 disk drive was fun to watch.
Especially if you didn't have the "direct seek" option. I had a one-card
program that would do for (i=0; i<100; i++) seek_cylinder(i). That doesn't step
track to track as you would expect; instead, it goes from track n to 0 to n+1, resulting
in progressively wilder and slower seeks as n increases.
paul