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From: ayac071@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hyperspace?
Message-ID: <5776@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 22:20:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.5776
Posted: Fri Jul 31 22:20:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 07:38:45 EDT
References: <1246@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: ayac071@ngp.UUCP (Bill Douglass)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
Lines: 29
Keywords: Q-1, Hyperspace

In article <1246@killer.UUCP> robertl@killer.UUCP (Robert Lord) writes:
>I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said he worked for a 
>Company called Q-1 which had made a disk controler which would calculate
>the distance that it had to jump to get to the track it needed to get to
>(make sence so far?) and then would put the head into hyperspace to jump to 
>that track.  It usually came within 1 or 2 tracks of where it wanted to
>be, so it just had to jump a track or 2.  It was programed to expect errors
>on the way there though....2 questions:
>
>      1)  Is something like this still around?  This combined with RLL 
>          would make a very good combination!
>
>      2)  How did they get the head to go faster?

I would be wary of such a device if I were you.  I had one earlier, but didn't
like it.  Seems that the head would jump to hyperspace, then reappear at the
correct track, but at the wrong time.  Sometimes it would read data I had erased
days ago, but occassionally it would read code I hadn't even written yet (I
think nothing is worse than to see examples of code you have yet to write.  I
still shutter to think about it!)

Anyway, until they fix the problem with time-space relativity, I wouldn't
recommend these babys to anyone.

BTW, does anybody want to make an offer on a used TARDIS?  Slightly used, but
in excellent repair.  ;-)

Bill Douglass
ayac071@ngp.UUCP