29 Jun
2000
29 Jun
'00
2:29 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
A vertical storage system with 3 foot deep by
4 foot wide "shelves" mounted on a kind of chain
driven circular elevator. I got the idea from
some pictures of a car parking facility. The
shelf at the I/O position could slide onto a cart
which could then take it to a workstation where
it would lock in. I figure about 2 feet of
clearance between shelves and the whole system
being about 50 feet tall (or down into the floor)
so you could have 50 systems easily ready to use,
demo or work on.
Such contraptions are already in use in filing systems. I have one
machine that stores a few hundred 8" floppy disks in the same manner (that
Fred Cisin forced me to take :)
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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