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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 16:25:35 EDT
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Summary: walking disk drive

An old hacker from CMU, I believe (or maybe MIT or maybe ...) told me
about how they (whoever "They" are) had calculated the resonant frequency of 
a hard disk unit; once they knew the resonant frequency, it was a simple
matter to program the disk heads to seek at the appropriate times.  The end
result was a disk drive that, after it started to vibrate much like a
clotheswasher does when (as if to verify Dr. Heisenberg) all of the clothes
work their way over to one side of the wash bin, "walked" its way across the
computer room untill it pulled its own plug.