Mythbusters

On 2/4/2006 at 1:59 PM Fred Cisin wrote: I've got a couple of 8" floppy drives where attempting to seek beyond cylinder 77 will cause the heads to "bounce" back to cylinder 55 or so. I don't think it hurts anything, but it is kind of neat to watch. ...and I've got a couple of 5.25" floppies where seeking to anything past about cylinder 84/42 (depending on the drive) will cause the head to jam, requiring manual intervention to free it. I suppose that one could pound a hole through a ribbon or paper with an impact printer printing over and over at the same spot. And line printers with carriage control tapes where someone forgot to punch a hole could run through a box of paper in no time on a "skip to channel" command. But neither of those is anything more than an annoyance. I'm still looking for that magical "self destruct sequence"... Cheers, Chuck