23 May
2009
23 May
'09
10:26 a.m.
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:46:59AM -0400, Bob Bradlee wrote:
I have never seen them head crash, but I was lucky enough to see the
aftermath. I walked in one morning to see the technician with a set of
heads on the table and a voice coil actuator in his arms, I think the
voice coil was about as big as my arm or leg. It looked huge to me.
I am afraid I don't remember which drive it was, but it was one
of the large CDC drives with umpteen many platters. It was about the
largest around at the time.
- Diane
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On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:14:19 -0500 (CDT), Doc wrote:
...
the heads
unlocked, he made the other end of the garage in one jump. :-)
Many years ago while on a service call at the Detroit Free Press, I witnessed a head
crash
on the composing room system, the drive spun up, the heads unlocked, than there was a big
Boom
when the pack turned to a large cloud of dust and set off the Halon system.
Luck for me I was around the corner working on an Autocon scanner and outside of the
blast.