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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <1988Oct16.054306.1884@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 88 05:43:06 GMT

In article <9287@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>As an aside, one interesting idea for linear voice coil drives is to
>place several heads along the arm, dramatically cutting the maximum
>seek distance...

Uh, Jim, you may not be aware of this, but the Fujitsu Eagle has two
heads per surface on its linear actuator.  Not a new idea.
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