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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now [ is an exploding computer ]
Message-ID: <2738@phri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 10:43:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2738
Posted: Thu Jun  4 10:43:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 04:29:56 EDT
References: <19211@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <2175@husc6.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: Walking disk drives (and ttys)

In article <2175@husc6.UUCP> hughes@endor.UUCP (Brian Hughes) writes:
> 	Given a not terribly massive drive, and a heavy set of head arms,
> this is theoretically possible. Not sure that you'd need to make the drive
> resonate to do this.

	Anybody who has every used a KSR/ASR-33 knows that it's not hard to
make a piece of machinery jump around by flopping some parts inside it.
The whole teletype would jump around when you did a CR at the end of a long
line, especially if the pneumatic shock absorber wasn't working right.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016