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From: myers@buengc.BU.EDU (Eric Myers)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 17:52:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 17:52:04 1987
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Keywords: Walking disk drives
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  Years ago I was running on an IBM 1130 at Willamette University in
Oregon.  (Her name was Grendle.)  I remember one of the students there
programmed her so the disk head would seek all the way across the
platter in one pop in one direction, then work it's way back in several
increments in the the other direction.  Whenever it made that long seek
the whole drive would shake, and after running the program a long time
he got the thing to move itself across the floor.

But sorry to disappoint you, because after running it all night it only
moved about a quarter of an inch.
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Eric Myers	         		 >>>	NO LIGHTS AT FENWAY!!	<<<
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