Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Data Storage density questions Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 11:25:12 GMT References: <2635@mindlink.UUCP> <10048@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <2684@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Jul31.183218.20342@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul31.194559.4245@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <1990Jul31.194559.4245@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@banana.cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes: > In article <1990Jul31.183218.20342@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > >How, exactly, do you keep the head one zillionth of an inch above the disk > >surface, *without* touching it, in a vacuum? > Magnetic levitation? :-) That might actually be a good idea... for an optical disk. (is that a british zillion or an american zillion?) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`